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LADEE

Also known as Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Launched

Explore trajectory

Completed · Success

A NASA orbiter that studied the Moon's tenuous exosphere and dust environment from low altitude before a planned impact.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
Minotaur 5
Launch site
Wallops Island, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    LADEE launched on a Minotaur-V from Wallops Flight Facility

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • LADEE · Orbiter

    Destinations: Moon

Trajectory record

Time-dependent navigation trajectory

Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.

J2000 · Sun-centered display · positions interpolated between source states

Coverage: September 7, 2013 to April 18, 2014

Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.

  • LADEE: Reconstructed · September 7, 2013 to April 18, 2014

Provenance

Sources

Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.

Data verified through August 27, 2026