Article: SHOOTING FOR THE MOON NASA READIES ITS LATEST LUNAR EXPLORATION WITH PLANNED LAUNCH OF VERY LOW-BUDGET PROSPECTOR.(News/National/International)

Article: Silicon Valley Goes to the Moon: Lockheed Martin-Led Team ...
Business Wire;  October 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Program. "While Lunar Prospector explores the Moon, each time any of ... resources. Besides the Moon's surface composition, Lunar Prospector's instruments will ... VALLEY GOES TO THE MOON: LUNAR PROSPECTOR TEAM MEMBERS SUNNYVALE ...

Article: Divining water. (the unmanned US spacecraft Lunar ...
The Economist (US);  January 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... once again make the moon the most fashionable ... discovery was water. Lunar Prospector, an unmanned American ... delays, should reach the moon on January 11th; with ... of atmosphere, the moon would be a splendid ... four instruments on Lunar Prospector is a neutron spectrometer ...

Article: SPLASH CRASH.(Lunar Prospector tests for water on ...
Jack & Jill;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... space probe into the moon--on purpose. Why ... Observations of the moon by the spacecraft Lunar Prospector last year made scientists ... for signs of water. Lunar Prospector, which was at the ... a crater near the moon's south pole on ...

Article: SPACE PROBE MAKES `BURST' FOR MOON LUNAR ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 12, 1998 ;     545 words ... ... space probe Lunar Prospector successfully ... orbit around the moon, officials ... clean.'' Lunar Prospector was launched ... to scan the moon for minerals ... miles above the moon's surface. Lunar Prospector does not carry ...

Article: Space Image of the Week: Moon on the Rocks? Lunar ...
Business Wire;  January 4, 2003 ;     628 words ... ... 4, 2003 The Lunar Prospector mission to the Moon is featured in ... com/iow). Lunar Prospector was NASA's first mission the Moon since the Apollo ... five years ago, Lunar Prospector orbited the Moon for 19 months ...

Article: Watery prospects: Shoot the moon.(plans to have ...
Science News;  July 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... impending demise of Lunar Prospector could make quite a splash ... which has orbited the moon since January 1998 and ... a clear view of the moon until a half hour after ... chief scientist for Lunar Prospector, note that a failure ... s existence on the moon. For instance, ...

Article: Moon crash comes up dry.(Lunar Prospector ...
Science News;  November 6, 1999 ;     675 words ... ... Last July 31, with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft nearly out ... kamikaze-style into the moon, scientists hoped the ... not suggest that the moon has no water, the team emphasizes. Lunar Prospector may have missed its ... didn't gaze at the moon soon enough after the ...