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NASA Explores Lunar Science while ULA’s Vulcan Rocket Receives Approval for January 8 Liftoff

Jan 6, 2024

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Reia Leen Delantar

in Space News

NASA is preparing for its Certification-1 flight test on January 8, 2024, using ULA’s Vulcan rocket. NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) effort aims to launch the first Astrobotic Peregrine commercial lunar lander to a highly elliptical orbit 220,000 miles above Earth to intercept the Moon. Five instruments contribute to lunar science in the cargo.…