LADEE

 2013-047A

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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer; NASA-ARC mission. Enter 50 x 50 km x 5 deg lunar orbit for 100 day study. Built in house at ARC with GSFC instruments and Loral propulsion system. ARC MCSB (Modular Common Spacecraft Bus) Launch by Minotaur 5 from WI. Mass 383 kg full 248 dry, with 135 kg prop and He. Size 1.85m dia 2.37m high

C3 = -2.75; 200 x 277000 x 37.65, AOP 155 deg

LADEE
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2013 Sep 7	0327:13	Launch by Minotaur V	WI LA0B
		T+0:57 St 1 sep, 23 km
		T+0:57 St 2 ig
		T+2:15 St 2 sep
		T+2:43 Fairing sep
		T+3:27 S3 burnout
		T+7:11 S3 sep	-3217 x 259 x 37.8
	0334	T+7:22 S4 ig
	0335	T+8:47 S4 bo	207 x 785 x 37.6
	0341	T+14:26 S4 sep
	0342	T+15:41 Spinup
	0343	T+16:56 S5 ig	206 x 832 x 37.6
	0345	T+18:00 S5 bo
	0348	T+21:56 despin Yo-yo
	0349	T+22:50 S4 gas depletion	200 x 2200? x 37
	0350	T+23:26 S5 sep	200 x 275000 x 37
	0353	T+26:46 S5 depletion
2013 Sep 7	1200	Alt 93753 km
	2006	Pass EL1:4
2013 Sep 8	0000	Alt 165141 km
2013 Sep 9	0000	Alt 243689 km
2013 Sep 10	1028	Apogee 1 at 270945 km	1256 x 297045 x 37.1
2013 Sep 11	2300:21	AM-1b Test burn 9.4m/s, 90deg oop	1950 x 278749 x 34.5
2013 Sep 13	1637	Perigee 1 at 2062 km
2013 Sep 13	1640		2059 x 289461 x 33.9
2013 Sep 13	1636:08	PM-1 17m/s, P from 6.4 to 7.6d	2063 x 325450 x 35.41
2013 Sep 17	1432	Apogee 2 at 318156 km	1730 x 318155 x 36.79
2013 Sep 21	1100		7.7d 1352 x 316295 x 38.2
	1153:40	PM-2 17.5m/s
2013 Sep 21	1154	Perigee 2	9.8d 1367 x 373680 x 38.25
2013 Sep 26	1131	Apogee 3	9.9d 1446 x 375942 x 38.66
2013 Oct 1	1056	Perigee 3	10.4d 1453 x 381379 x 38.61
	2200:00	TCM-1 0.88m/s
2013 Oct 2	0000		9.9d 1460 x 375352 x 38.6
2013 Oct 4		NMS break-off cap (BOC) ejected
2013 Oct 5	0000	Alt 355634 km	773 x 375145 x 43.8
	1815	Enter Lunar sphere (R=66180 km)
2013 Oct 6	1055	Approach	588 x -15776 x 158.2
2013 Oct 6	1057:23	LOI-1 burn 3 min 330m/s	24h orbit
	1101	LOI-1 cutoff
	1105		1428.93 558 x 15370 x 158.2
2013 Oct 9	1038:58	LOI-2 291m/s	227 x 2184 x 158
2013 Oct 12			229 x 2219 x
2013 Oct 13	0332:53	LOI-3 244 m/s
		LDEX cover
		UVS cover
		Staging orbit	250 x 250 km x 157 deg
		Science orbit	20 x 60 km
2013 Nov 11	0356	OLM-3 35.3 m/s
2013 Nov 21	0452:41	OLM-4 33.9 m/s
2013 Nov 21	0453	Primary science phase
2013 Nov 27	0427:36	OMM-1 6.8m/s
2013 Dec 3	0346:34	OMM-2 10.7m/s
2013 Dec 11	0331:04	OMM-3 4.6m/s
2013 Dec 17	0356:34	OMM-4 6.0m/s
2013 Dec 21	0450:30	OMM-5 6.4m/s
2013 Dec 27	0530:04	OMM-6 5.8m/s
2014 Jan 2	0443:24	OMM-7 8.5m/s
2014 Jan 10	0316;01	OMM-8 -5.4m/s
2014 Jan 16	0412:37	OMM-9 3.6m/s
2014 Jan 20	0452:46	OMM-10 6.1m/s
2014 Jan 26	0133:47	OMM-11 6.5m/s
2014 Feb 1	0452:22	OMM-12 8.9m/s
2014 Feb 9	0317:29	OMM-13 6.2m/s
2014 Feb 15	0356:34	OMM-14 6.0m/s
2014 Feb 19	0451:00	OMM-15 5.2m/s
2014 Feb 26?		LRO close approach
2014 Feb 27	0549:27	OMM-16b 5.5m/s
2014 Mar 1	0453	Extended science mission
2014 Mar 3	0418:10	OMM-17 9.0 m/s
2014 Mar 11	0246:35	OMM-18 -6.1m/s
2014 Mar 23	229:42	OMM-19, 7.0m/s lower orbit	20 x 20 km
2014 Mar 28	2336:20	OMM-20 4.9m/s
2014 Apr 4	0200:59	OMM-21 16.9m/s
2014 Apr 12	0319:43	OMM-22 9.7m/s
2014 Apr 18	0431:47	Impact on farside 1.692km/s
		11.840 -93.252
		On east rim of Sundman V, 12N 93.2W

Payload:

• UVS UV/vis spectrometer, study dust via solar occultation (ARC/)

• LDEX Lunar Dust Experiment (CU-LASP/)

• NMS Neutral Mass Spectrometer (GSFC/)

• LLCD Lunar Laser Communications technology demo (MIT-LL/)