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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Is Officially Lost in Space -- but Maybe Not Forever
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Goes Silent in Space – Can Engineers Bring It Back?
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully deploying into space. But soon after, the mission hit a snag — engineers discovered power system issues that led to a loss of communication.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Athena Lander, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer to Moon
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena and Lunar Trailblazer to advance lunar water ice exploration and future missions.
NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions
The declining fortunes of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft raise additional questions about a NASA program to develop these kinds of low-cost missions. Known as the Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (or SIMPLEx in the tortured acronyms that NASA uses for some of its programs),
NASA Just Lost a Spacecraft and the Clock Is Ticking
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer has gone silent, drifting in space with minimal power. Mission teams are working relentlessly to regain contact, using ground-based radar and NASA’s Deep Space Network. If communications can be restored,

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Low on power and spinning out of control, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer moon probe's future looks grim
Lunar Trailblazer flight controllers are using NASA's Deep Space Network, along with ground-based observatories, to better ...
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NASA's brand-new Lunar Trailblazer probe suffers glitch on way to the moon
NASA's water-hunting Lunar Trailblazer probe is experiencing communication and power issues while it makes its way to the ...
Lunar Trailblazer blasts off to map water on the moon
On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics ...
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What does water look like on the moon? A new lunar probe is on a mission to find out
The Lunar Trailblazer orbiter's launch window opens Feb 26. It's catching a ride with Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission which ...
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There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history
Three private lunar landers are on their way to the moon right now, a surge of exploration never before seen in spaceflight ...
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NASA Hitches a Ride to the Moon to Map Water for Astronauts
Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes. By Kenneth ...
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Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2 Will Depart for the Moon in Search of Water
Learn about NASA's Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2, two missions that will soon launch into space to find clues on the presence of ...
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Scientists Struggle to Communicate With 2 Spacecraft Launched Wednesday
A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...