LCROSS: the story
LCROSS · Chapter 1 of 3
18 June 2009
Launch
LCROSS left Earth on a Atlas V 401 from Space Launch Complex 41.
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LCROSS · Chapter 2 of 3
2009
Life’s work
LCROSS steered its spent rocket stage into a dark polar crater, flew through the plume and found water.
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LCROSS · Chapter 3 of 3
9 October 2009
Impact
The Centaur stage struck Cabeus crater first. LCROSS followed four minutes later, sending data until the moment it hit.
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