Mission record
LunIR
Also known as Lunar InfraRed Imaging, SkyFire
Lockheed Martin · Launched
Explore trajectoryFailed · Failure
Lockheed Martin's LunIR CubeSat could not complete its lunar infrared-imaging technology demonstration after the Artemis I launch.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SLS Block 1 Crew
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Technology demonstrator, Flyby
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission end
LunIR was unable to complete its mission in space
Mission architecture
Vehicles
LunIR · Spacecraft · failed
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.
- LunIR: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · 90-minute modeled ICPS-carried interval; 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
- Setting Our Sights on the Moon with Shoebox-Sized Satellites — OTHERMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- LUNIR — OTHERMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Artemis I - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · 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
- Space Launch System Reference Guide (2022), Artemis I secondary payload deployment table — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- SLS CubeSats: It's a SmallSat World After All, Artemis I flight-results presentation — NASATechnical document · 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
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context