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Ref : S11094
Theme :
Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets (2314 images)
Title : Lockheed Martin Missile Systems technicians prepare NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft
Caption :
(12/18/1997) --- Lockheed Martin Missile Systems technicians prepare NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft for mating to the Trans Lunar Injection Module of the spacecraft at Astrotech, a commercial payload processing facility, in Titusville, Fla. The small robotic spacecraft, to be launched for NASA on an Athena II launch vehicle by Lockheed Martin, is designed to provide the first global maps of the Moon’s surface compositional elements and its gravitational and magnetic fields. The launch of Lunar Prospector is scheduled for Jan. 5, 1998 at 8:31 p.m
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