Sent NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the LCROSS impactor to the Moon together on a single Atlas V. LRO mapped lunar terrain and searched for water ice, while LCROSS later crashed into a permanently shadowed crater to confirm ice in the ejecta plume.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 2009, 21:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2009-031
- Launches in 2009
- 33rd of 78
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