launched fromUSA

LRO

Name: LRO
Start: 2009-06-18T21:32:00Z
Location: Canaveral

Success

JUN 18200921:32:00 UTC

LCROSS observed the upper stage impacting the Cabeus crater on the Moon at 11:31 on 9 October shortly before its own impact into the same crater. The LCROSS spacecraft confirmed the presence of water at the Lunar South Pole.

LIFTOFF

JUN 18 2009

21:32:00 UTC

Success

launched fromSLC-41Canaveral

aboardAtlas V 401intoLunar

Payloads · 2

01
LCROSS
Lunar impactor
02
LRO
Lunar orbiter