NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail
NASA has given up searching for ice hidden inside craters on the surface of the Moon's South Pole - for now - after the Lunar Flashlight cubesat carrying out the mission failed to generate enough thrust to reach its intended orbit.to enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon, and use a laser to scan the dark nooks and crannies of the natural satellite's surface for ice.
Lunar Flashlight also carried a new Sphinx flight computer – a radiation-hardened, low-power system developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Also aboard is Iris, an upgraded navigation radio to rendezvous and land on the Moon. Christopher Baker, program executive for NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology in the Space Technology Mission Directorate, said that both components worked well during the mission.
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