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Lunar Trailblazer

Also known as LunarTrailblazer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Launched

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Failed · Failure

A NASA smallsat that was to map water on the Moon from polar orbit, lost when contact failed hours after launch.

Destinations
Moon
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Lunar Trailblazer launched as a secondary satellite with the IM-2 mission

    Earth

  2. Loss of contact

    Contact was lost after release, the spacecraft believed to be in a slow-spin, low-power state

    The page says release came about two hours after launch and that contact was lost, without giving a time for the loss itself.

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Lunar Trailblazer · Orbiter

    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

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Data verified through August 27, 2026