Mission record
Lunar IceCube
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Launched
Explore trajectoryFailed · Failure
A NASA CubeSat launched as an Artemis I secondary payload to investigate lunar ice, but no communication could be established after launch.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SLS Block 1 Crew
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Orbiter
Chronology
Mission timeline
Loss of contact
No communication could be established after launch
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Lunar IceCube · Spacecraft
Destinations: Moon
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 5, 2026
- Extending the Internet into space | OPS Portal — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA’s Moon-observing CubeSat Ready for Artemis Launch - NASA — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Artemis I - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context