Lunar Mission to Test Space Laser
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., Sept. 6, 2013 — With the upcoming launch of NASA’s moon-orbiting Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the space agency is also venturing into what it hopes will be a new era of broadband space communications using lasers. LADEE, a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere, conditions near the surface, and environmental influences on lunar dust, will be launched on a Minotaur V vehicle sometime during a five-day launch period that.....