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Clementine

Also known as Deep Space Program Science Experiment, DSPSE, Clementine 1

NASA-Office of Space Science Applications, Department of Defense-Department of the Navy · Launched

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Completed · Partial success

A joint Defense Department and NASA mission that mapped the Moon in eleven wavelengths before a malfunction ended its planned encounter with asteroid 1620 Geographos.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
Titan II-G
Launch site
Vandenberg AFB, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Orbiter, Flyby

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base

  2. Milestone

    Thruster malfunction ends the planned Geographos flyby

    An attitude-control thruster fired for 11 minutes, exhausting fuel and ending the planned observations of asteroid 1620 Geographos.

    1620 Geographos

  3. Mission end

    The mission ended when telemetry was no longer intelligible

Mission architecture

Vehicles

Trajectory record

Trajectory dataset not yet available

No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.

Provenance

Sources

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Data verified through September 3, 2026