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    The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE; /ˈlædi/) was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission. It was launched...
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    solar winds and dissipated into space. Solar System portal Atmosphere of Mercury Exosphere Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Orders...
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  • 350 tons (317 metric tons) and rise 6 miles (9.7 km) from the surface. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launched on September...
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    Moon landing (redirect from Lunar landing)
    Mission Archived 11 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine "Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)". National Space Science Data Center Master...
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    Other evolved antennas were subsequently used on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft. Hornby, Gregory S.; Al Globus; Derek S....
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    Grumman) and made its maiden, and to date, only flight on 7 September 2013 carrying the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) spacecraft...
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    Lunar regolith is the unconsolidated material found on the surface of the Moon and in the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. Sometimes referred to as Lunar soil...
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  • experiment (REPTile) Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) MAVEN - Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN...
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    Magnetic field of the Moon (category Lunar science)
    to -1000 V. Further characterization was done by the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer orbiter in late 2013. The plasma sheet is a very dynamic...
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    m and 10:22 p.m. PDT, after successfully completing its goal to collect lunar dust and study the Moon's atmosphere, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment...
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    Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
    present-day Mars. The ancient lunar atmosphere was eventually stripped away by solar winds and dissipated into space. A permanent Moon dust cloud exists around...
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    LADEE's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) was a payload on NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer lunar orbiter. The LLCD...
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    subsystem, that was successfully tested aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission in 2013. Laser space communication Laser Communications...
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    Moon LCROSS List of missions to the Moon Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Lunar outpost (NASA) Lunar water Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter SELENE...
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    liquefied air. On 17 August 2015, based on studies with the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft, NASA scientists reported the detection...
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    planned Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission to the Moon, and the project awarded $80 million for further development and construction...
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    The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) on board the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission is a smaller version of the Galileo and Ulysses...
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    launched with the NASA LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission. After a month-long transit to the Moon and a 40-day spacecraft checkout...
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    Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (category Buildings and structures in Accomack County, Virginia)
    MARS Pad 0B, VCSFA made modifications and upgrades to launch the NASA Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission to the Moon in mid-2013...
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    Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft, whose primary science mission was to investigate the tenuous and exotic atmosphere...
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  • Sodium tail of the Moon (category Lunar science)
    sodium on the Moon. Solar System portal Atmosphere of the Moon Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer "Astronomers discover that moon has long...
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  • Moon Impact Probe Lunar Precursor Robotic Program Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LCROSS Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) ARTEMIS (THEMIS)...
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  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    survey program ever conducted. In 2013, NASA's lunar-orbiting Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) carried an optical communications terminal...
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    Wallops Flight Facility (category Buildings and structures in Accomack County, Virginia)
    Island was Explorer IX, atop a Scout rocket, on February 15, 1961. On September 6, 2013, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was...
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  • online and through a SPIE publication. The concept was first tested in outer space aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)...
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    communication Laser communication in space Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, hosted the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration Optical communication...
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    Moonbase (redirect from Lunar base)
    proposed a lunar base of inflatable modules covered in lunar dust for insulation. A spaceship assembled in low Earth orbit would launch to the Moon, and astronauts...
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    Timeline of Solar System exploration (category Discovery and exploration of the Solar System)
    (IRIS)". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 17 June 2019. "Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 18 June 2019...
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    regolith, and some water is chemically bonded with minerals. Other experiments have detected water molecules in the negligible lunar atmosphere, and even some...
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    geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), lunar, and interplanetary missions. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission was launched on...
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