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- LCROSS abstract "The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the moon. The main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was successful in discovering water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus.It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years. Together, LCROSS and LRO form the vanguard of NASA's return to the Moon, and are expected to influence United States government decisions on whether or not to colonize the Moon.LCROSS was designed to collect and relay data from the impact and debris plume resulting from the launch vehicle's spent Centaur upper stage (and data collecting Shepherding Spacecraft) striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon.Centaur had nominal impact mass of 2,305 kg (5,081 lb), and an impact velocity of about 9,000 km/h (5,600 mph), releasing the kinetic energy equivalent of detonating approximately 2 tons of TNT (8.86 GJ).LCROSS suffered a malfunction on August 22, depleting half of its fuel and leaving very little fuel margin in the spacecraft.Centaur impacted successfully on October 9, 2009, at 11:31 UTC. The Shepherding Spacecraft descended through Centaur's ejectate plume, collected and relayed data, impacting six minutes later at 11:37 UTC.Contrary to media reports at the time, neither the impact nor its dust cloud could be seen from Earth, using the naked eye or telescopes.".
- LCROSS cosparId "2009-031B".
- LCROSS thumbnail LCROSS_Centaur_1.jpg?width=300.
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- LCROSS wikiPageExternalLink viewcontent.cgi?article=1217&context=smallsat.
- LCROSS wikiPageExternalLink lcross.arc.nasa.gov.
- LCROSS wikiPageExternalLink LCROSS.
- LCROSS wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
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- LCROSS wikiPageID "5028666".
- LCROSS wikiPageLength "29164".
- LCROSS wikiPageOutDegree "96".
- LCROSS wikiPageRevisionID "642833068".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Ames_Research_Center.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Atlas_V.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Aviation_Week.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Cabeus_(crater).
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Canaveral,_Florida.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Space_Launch_Complex_41.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Destroyed_space_probes.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Missions_to_the_Moon.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:NASA_programs.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:NASA_space_probes.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Space_probes_launched_in_2009.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Spacecraft_that_impacted_the_Moon.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Centaur_(rocket_stage).
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Clementine_(spacecraft).
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Clementine_mission.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Colonization_of_the_Moon.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Coordinated_Universal_Time.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Delta_II.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink EELV_Secondary_Payload_Adapter.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Eagle-0.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Time_Zone.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Evolved_Expendable_Launch_Vehicle.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Federal_government_of_the_United_States.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Geocentric_orbit.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Gigajoule.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Hale_Telescope.
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- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink High_Earth_orbit.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Hubble_Space_Telescope.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Hydrogen.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Hydroxyl.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Joule.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink List_of_artificial_objects_on_the_Moon.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_Precursor_Robotic_Program.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_Prospector.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_ice.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_water.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Monopropellant_rocket.
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- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Omnidirectional_antenna.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Payload.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Payload_(air_and_space_craft).
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Polar_orbit.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Popular_Mechanics.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Project_A119.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Robotic_spacecraft.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink S_Band.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink S_band.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Satellite_Tool_Kit.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Space_Foundation.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Spectroscopy.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Systems_Tool_Kit.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink TNT_equivalent.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Trinitrotoluene.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink UTC.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink United_Launch_Alliance.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Universe_Today.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Walter_Cronkite.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink Water.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink File:Exploded_view_of_LCROSS_spacecraft.png.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink File:LCROSS_Centaur.jpg.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink File:LCROSS_Centaur_Impact_Flash.jpg.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink File:LCROSS_LRO_being_prepared_for_fairing_installation.jpg.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLink File:LCROSS_Trajectory_Side_View.svg.
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "Centaur upper stage (LCROSS)".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "LCROSS satellite".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "LCROSS".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "Shepherding spacecraft (LCROSS)".
- LCROSS wikiPageWikiLinkText "structural capabilities".
- LCROSS apsis "gee".
- LCROSS cosparId "2009".
- LCROSS hasPhotoCollection LCROSS.
- LCROSS imageCaption "LCROSS spacecraft, artist's rendering".
- LCROSS interplanetary "--10-09".
- LCROSS launchContractor United_Launch_Alliance.
- LCROSS launchDate "--06-18".