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Lunar Flashlight

Also known as LunarFlashlight

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Launched

Explore trajectory

Failed · Failure

A NASA CubeSat intended to look for surface ice in permanently shadowed lunar craters, ended early by problems with its thrusters.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Full Thrust
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Lunar Flashlight launched with Hakuto-R Mission1

  2. Mission end

    NASA announced the mission was ended due to problems with the thrusters

    Moon

  3. Flyby

    Lunar Flashlight flew past Earth before escaping to solar orbit

    Earth

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Lunar Flashlight · Spacecraft

    Destinations: Moon, Earth

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: December 11, 2022 to December 31, 2035

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

  • Lunar Flashlight: Reconstructed · December 11, 2022 to December 31, 2035

Provenance

Sources

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

Data verified through September 14, 2026