The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (LRO), launched on June 18, 2009, began with the goal of seeking safe landing sites for future robotic missions or the return of humans to the Moon as part of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). In addition, LRO's objectives included the search for surface resources and to investigate the Lunar radiation environment. Having marked the two-year anniversary, we will review here the major results from the LRO mission for both exploration and science and discuss plans and objectives going forward including plans for an extended science phase out to 2014.


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    Title :

    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Plans for the Extended Science Phase


    Contributors:
    Vondrak, R. R. (author) / Keller, J. W. (author) / Chin, G. (author) / Garvin, J. B. (author) / Rice, J. W., Jr. (author) / Petro, N. E. (author)

    Conference:

    43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2012 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-03-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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