LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the location of ice or liquid water trapped in rocks on the moon's surface is nearly ready for takeoff. The Lunar ...

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What's the mission? A spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface. Type of craft: Orbiter. Launch: Early 2025. Launch vehicle ...

The latest configuration of Boeing's Lunar Orbiter, seen from above, shows the directional antenna (top) and omnidirectional antenna (lower right) extended. Four solar panels are deployed ...

For comparison, it took 5 million to 6 million years for water ... Noah Petro, NASA project scientist for both the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Artemis III, which aims to land humans on ...