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NASA water-hunting moon cubesat ready to launch with SpaceX

NASA is going all in on the moon, and an upcoming mission called Lunar Flashlight will add lasers to the party.

During the mission, a small satellite (SmallSat), roughly the size of a briefcase, will skim the moon‘s surface and use lasers to peer into lunar craters, searching for water ice in places we haven’t been able to explore yet. Lunar Flashlight will launch no earlier than Nov. 22 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rideshare, joining Japan’s Hakuto-R lander and the United Arab Emirates’ Rashid 1 rover.

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