Lockheed Martin Athena II's first flight, and the first Athena launch from Cape Canaveral, carried NASA's Lunar Prospector spin-stabilized orbiter toward the Moon to map its surface composition, gravity field, and search for polar ice deposits.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Athena II flights
- Date and time
- 7 January 1998, 02:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Athena II
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 46, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-001
- Launches in 1998
- 1st of 82
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