Launching next month, the space agency's Lunar Flashlight will search for water ice hiding in permanently shadowed craters on the Moon's south pole.
. Lunar Flashlight could locate these reservoirs, which are typically at the bottom of craters, by beaming down near-infrared lasers using an instrument called a four-laser reflectometer.
Since propellant will be limited by the small footprint of the satellite, Lunar Flashlight will be using the more fuel-efficient near-rectilinear halo orbit, much like the. Mission navigators will guide Lunar Flashlight past the Moon, where gravity from the Earth and Sun will pull it back, allowing the satellite to settle into a sweeping, oval-shaped orbit. This will be only. At its closest point to the Moon, Lunar Flashlight will skirt a mere 9 miles above the surface.
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