... a robotic scout, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), to orbit the moon in 2009. LRO will gather crucial data on the lunar environment that will help astronauts prepare for long-duration ...
... across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system.
And you thought your connection was fast. NASA's Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently scanning the moon with powerful
sensory equipment, gathering the most detailed data to date from
the lunar ...
Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
... help NASA's soon-to-be launched Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions.
"For example, LCROSS aims to liberate water by impacting into ...
GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was en route Wednesday to the Kennedy Space Center for a scheduled April 24 launch.
... nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency said preparations are complete for the launch of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
GREENBELT, Md., June 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter entered a lunar orbit at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
... four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered ... Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. ...
Craters lie deep in shadow as seen in the first pictures from
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will spend about a year
scouting out the moon to aid future missions.
NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is gearing up to look down on the Apollo 11 landing site.
... miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft moving at nearly ... pulses from its own laser reflected off the lunar surface. The instrument's laser is used to build three ...
... Goddard Space Flight Center fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft moving at nearly 3,600 miles per hour ...
... s permanently shadowed regions, initially done to support the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), underscored a problem for ground- ...
