KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASAs Lunar Prospector spacecraft
launched successfully on its way to the moon from Launch Complex 46
(LC46) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on Jan. 6 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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