LADEE Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer NASA SATELLITE SPACE PATCH

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LADEE Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer USAF Minotaur V Launch NASA SATELLITE SPACE PATCH
NASA's
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) -
pronounced "laddie" -
is a robotic mission that will
orbit the moon
to gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin
lunar atmosphere
, and determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky. A
thorough understanding
of these characteristics of our nearest celestial neighbor will help researchers understand other bodies in the solar system, such as large asteroids, Mercury, and the moons of outer planets..
The LADEE spacecraft's
modular common spacecraft bus
, or body, is an innovative way of transitioning away from custom designs and toward multi-use designs and assembly-line production, which could drastically reduce the cost of spacecraft development, just as the Ford Model T did for automobiles.
NASA's Ames Research Center
designed, developed, built, and tested the spacecraft and manages mission operations.
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