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    NASA’s LunaH-Map Mission Ends, Validates Science Instrument Performance

    Several technicians in white smocks, masks and head coverings work around a small briefcase-sized piece of hardware.

    NASA's LunaH-Map (Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper) mission, a briefcase-sized lunar orbiter that launched as a ride share on NASA's Artemis I mission last year, has ceased operations after successfully demonstrating its neutron spectrometer can detect water and ice at the lunar surface. The LunaH-Map CubeSat was designed to map ice deposits across the Moon's South …

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