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Lunar Flashlight
NASA small satellite which was planned to orbit the Moon. Lunar Flashlight was launched on December 11, 2022 aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: left Earth orbit for deep space (Dec 11, 2022).
COSPAR 2022-168BNORAD 54697United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Lunar Flashlight
- International designator
- 2022-168B
- NORAD catalog number
- 54697
- GCAT identifier
- S54697
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1096
Mission
- Mission type
- Deep space
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- JPL Deep Cube
- Owner
- JPL
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Jet Propulsion Lab
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 6U
Launch
- Date
- December 11, 2022 · 07:38 UTC
- Launch record
- 2022-168Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- CLO
- Perigee
- 293 km
- Apogee
- 1,134,167 km
- Inclination
- 29.10°
- Status
- Left Earth orbit for deep space
- Status date
- December 11, 2022
- Last known active
- May 12, 2023
- End of operations
- May 12, 2023
Size
- Mass
- 14 kg
- Dry mass
- 14 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.20 m
- Span
- 0.9 m
Deep space
- Deep-space catalog entry
- D01117
- Final central body
- Earth
- Phase start
- December 11, 2022
- Phase outcome
- Escaped to another body · June 22, 2023
- Destination
- HCO
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q21028130 (CC0).