Article: Spacecraft hits lunar surface at 3,800 mph.

Article: New prospects for the moon.(Lunar Prospector ...
Science News;  March 11, 1995 ;     484 words ... ... the solar system, NASA has given the go-ahead to the Lunar Prospector, a small, $59 million spacecraft that will map the surface ... unprecedented detail. It will also detect gases released from the lunar surface. During its mission, scheduled to begin in 1997 and last ...

Article: Silicon Valley Goes to the Moon: Lockheed Martin-Led Team of ...
Business Wire;  October 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... streamlined spacecraft, Lunar Prospector will spend a year ... surface composition, Lunar Prospector's instruments will ... release events from the lunar surface. The overall program ... in 1997 dollars. Lunar Prospector, which weighs 660 ...

Article: SPACE PROBE MAKES `BURST' FOR MOON LUNAR PROSPECTOR ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 12, 1998 ;     545 words ... ... space probe Lunar Prospector successfully ... walked on the lunar surface in 1972, completed ... s surface. Lunar Prospector does not carry ... the entire lunar surface as it surveys ... spectrometer, Lunar Prospector will be checking ...

Article: Divining water. (the unmanned US spacecraft Lunar ...
The Economist (US);  January 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... was water. Lunar Prospector, an unmanned ... up from the lunar surface decades ago ... smashed into the lunar surface over its history ... instruments on Lunar Prospector is a neutron ... ejected from the lunar surface after being ...

Article: NASA: No water ice detected from Lunar Prospector ...
M2 Presswire;  October 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... ice detected from Lunar Prospector impact (C)1994 ... direct impacts." Lunar Prospector was launched on ... map of the entire lunar surface. While the Moon ... The $63 million Lunar Prospector mission was led ...

Transcript: NO WATER ICE DETECTED FROM LUNAR PROSPECTOR ...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;  October 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... hydrogen detected by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft earlier ... direct impacts. Lunar Prospector was launched on Jan ... map of the entire lunar surface. While the Moon ... The $63 million Lunar Prospector mission was led by ...

Transcript: CREATIVE IMPACT EXPERIMENT TO MARK END OF LUNAR ...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;  July 28, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Athena 2 rocket, Lunar Prospector reached the moon ... resolution data sets. Lunar Prospector's data gathering ... map of the entire lunar surface. * confirmed the ... Tucson, AZ, led the Lunar Prospector team. The spacecraft ...