LADEE Launches
September 11, 2013
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory successfully launched on September 6, 2013 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This robotic mission will study the moon’s atmosphere and dust particles using a suite of advanced instruments, one of which is the Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) that was developed at GSFC with significant support by SESDA 3 engineers in the Code 699 Planetary Environments Laboratory.
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