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Lunar Prospector Launch Target Name:   Moon Spacecraft:   Lunar Prospector Produced by:   NASA/KSC Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Cross Reference:   KSC-98EC-0106 Related Document Lunar Prospector Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size lunpros3.jpg JPEG 427 x 640 28K lunpros3.jpg JPEG 1536 x 2304 284K NASAs Lunar Prospector spacecraft launched successfully on its way to the moon from Launch Complex 46 (LC46) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on January 6, 1998 at 9:28 p.m. EST. It was the inaugural launch of Lockheed Martin's Athena II launch vehicle and the first launch from LC46, operated by Spaceport Florida Authority. Lunar Prospector, built for the NASA Ames Research Center by Lockheed Martin, is a spin-stabilized spacecraft designed to provide NASA with the first global maps of the moons surface and its gravitational magnetic fields, as well as look for the possible presence of ice near the lunar poles. It will orbit the Moon at an altitude of approximately 63 miles during a one-year mission.

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