Mission record
LunaH-Map
Also known as LunaHMap, Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Launched
Explore trajectoryPartial success · Partial success
A CubeSat that flew past the Moon after the Artemis I launch but could not reach the low polar orbit from which it was to map water ice.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SLS Block 1 Crew
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Orbiter
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
LunaH-Map launched as a secondary payload on Artemis I
Milestone
DSN received LunaH-Map’s first radio signal
Original paper gives08:07EST; first contact by mission control was later at09:40EST.
Mission end
LunaH-Map operations ceased in late May after unsuccessful valve recovery
NASA announced this on August3; the exact final operations day was not given.
Mission architecture
Vehicles
LunaH-Map · Spacecraft
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.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- LunaH-Map: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · first 90 ICPS-carried minutes; free flight unresolved · November 16, 2022 to November 16, 2022
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 12, 2026
- LunaH-Map - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- LunaH-Map - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- LunaH-Map mission end report, 3 August 2023 — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Hardgrove et al.: LunaH-Map launch, early operations and lunar flyby neutron data, LPSC 2023, 2960 — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Arizona State University LunaH-Map press kit, flight system details, printed pages 10–11 — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Knittel et al.: Automated Optimization of Weak Stability Boundary Lunar Transfers for the LunaH-Map Mission — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Busek BIT-3 source hardware and Lunar IceCube/LunaH-Map configuration drawings, 2018 symposium — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Artemis I Mission: Launch and Early Trajectory Operations — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Lombardo (2023) doctoral thesis: Navigation design and flight dynamics operations of the ArgoMoon cis-lunar CubeSat — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Jones et al. (2023), Initial Acquisition Orbit Determination for NEAScout and the Artemis I Secondary Payloads, AAS 23-104 — JPLPaper · Supports: mission claims
- DE440s planetary ephemeris kernel — NAIFEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- NAIF0012 leap-seconds kernel — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- NAIF DE440-compatible planetary gravitational parameters kernel — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context