Gizmodo: NASA Pinpoints Clogged Propellant Lines as the Cause of Lunar Flashlight’s End https://gizmodo.com/nasa-blames-clogged-lines-lunar-flashlight-end-1850724514 #explorationofthemoon #technologyinternet #secondarypayloads #lunarflashlight #inspaceflight #lunaricecube #celestesmith #unitedstates #environment #nathancheek #cubesats #ispace #moon

Lunar Flashlight kan zijn geplande baan niet bereiken

NASA heeft een nieuw plan voor zijn problematische kleine maansonde die moeite heeft om in een baan om de Maan te komen

https://www.kuuke.nl/lunar-flashlight-kan-zijn-geplande-baan-niet-bereiken/

#nasa #maan #artemis #lunarflashlight #cubesat

The NASA JPL and Georgia Tech operations team for #LunarFlashlight have a plan to get the spacecraft back on track in the wake of its thruster issues. Modified maneuvers begin today 🤞 https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2023/02/08/nasa-eyes-new-lunar-cubesat-orbit-propulsion-challenges-continue/

Lots of news from small #lunar missions ... 1) #LunarFlashlight faces significant challenges in its goal of getting to the #Moon, with the target orbit changed: https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2023/02/08/nasa-eyes-new-lunar-cubesat-orbit-propulsion-challenges-continue/. 2) #CAPSTONE is in good health following a communications issue that began in late January: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2023/02/08/capstone-to-test-technologies-after-recovery-from-communications-issue/. And 3) #IntuitiveMachines is moving the landing site for its first lunar lander mission "IM-1" to the south polar region of the Moon: https://spacenews.com/intuitive-machines-moves-landing-site-of-first-mission-to-lunar-south-pole/

#space #moon #lunarflashlight

A tiny NASA moon probe can't reach lunar orbit as planned - but some inventive navigating may yet let it complete it's mission.

https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-probe-lunar-orbit-impossible

While NASA’s #LunarFlashlight is largely healthy and communicating with the Deep Space Network, the mission operations team has discovered that three of its four thrusters are underperforming - the team, which first observed the reduced thrust three days after launch, is working to analyze the issue and provide possible solutions: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-flashlight-team-assessing-spacecrafts-propulsion-system

Status update for #LunarFlashlight: Our little spacecraft is happy and healthy, though three of its thrusters are not providing as much oomph as expected. The mission team is now modifying their plans to get the small satellite into its planned near-rectilinear halo orbit. More: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-flashlight-team-assessing-spacecrafts-propulsion-system #space #NASA #NASAJPL #SmallSat

RT @RevesdEspace@twitter.com

🛰️🌑 10 petits satellites, des cubesats, étaient à bord du #SLS #Artemis1. Un autre cubesat, #LunarFlashlight est en route pour la #Lune, lancé avec l'atterrisseur #Hakuto_R.
Faisons le point sur le statut de ces satellites : https://reves-d-espace.com/plusieurs-petits-satellites-sont-en-route-vers-la-lune

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RevesdEspace/status/1604744593919995904

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Has Launched – Follow the Mission in Real Time

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-flashlight-has-launched-follow-the-mission-in-real-time

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#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #NASA #JPL #Moon #Caltech #SmallSat #LunarFlashlight

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#LunarFlashlight is really moving since its launch on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Follow along via NASA Eyes: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_lunar_flashlight

"NASA’s #LunarFlashlight has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:38 a.m. EST (Saturday, Dec. 10, at 11:38 p.m. PST) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. About 53 minutes after launch, the SmallSat was released from its dispenser to begin a four-month journey to the Moon to seek out surface water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar South Pole." https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-flashlight-has-launched-follow-the-mission-in-real-time #Moon #NASAJPL

#LunarFlashLight AOS, not a bad signal as it clears the trees in comms with DSS54 in Madrid.

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RT @LaurieofMars
Good to have @NASA_Orion home, and #LunarFlashlight flying! More info on the latter below. I may have been up in the middle of the night to screen shot them passing on @nasa_eyes (zoom in to see) — one moon-bound, one returning. Do you think they waved to each other?? 👋👋👋🚀🛰 https://twitter.com/erinspacecase/status/1602007687071502336 https://t.co/0sAi0TKCTd
https://twitter.com/LaurieofMars/status/1602019032957231104

Gaur goizean #Falcon9 suziri batean, #Hakuto_R "Mission 1" eta #LunarFlashlight misioak Ilargirantz jaurti dira.

#Artemisa1 misioaren #Orion espaziontzia arrakastaz itsasoratu da Ozeano Barean.

#GaurkoEgunez 1972. urtean, #Apolo17 misioa #Ilargia-n lurreratu zen.

#Espazioa

The Falcon 9 launch of the Japanese lander #Hakuto-R - with rovers from the UAE and Japan and other payloads - and American orbiter #LunarFlashlight to the #Moon was a full success this morning: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4128 and https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-lunar-flashlight-has-launched-follow-the-mission-in-real-time, with more links in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/live-blog-zu-artemis-heimkehr-und-hakuto-start/

My daughter worked on this satellite and is in Mission Control. Proud mom moment #LunarFlashlight #JPL #NASA #Brag

One on its way 🌎🚀➡️🌖
One coming home 🌖➡️🚀🌎
Busy night for @canberradsn’s antennas, supporting the start of #LunarFlashLight’s mission and the return of #Artemis1 for splashdown at ~4:40am AEDT 🪂🌊

That beautiful moment when you see those squiggly lines over a DSN antenna (LFL) 📡 😍 #LunarFlashlight #SIGNALACQUIRED

Go #LunarFlashlight

Nominal liftoff and staging #LunarFlashlight