The satellite was a secondary payload onboard the rocket, with the primary one being a lunar lander named Athena for a mission led ... sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface.

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon ... to map the distribution of the different forms of water on the moon's surface. Discoveries made during its two-year mission ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft embarks on a mission to map Moon’s water NASA has launched a pioneering spacecraft on a mission to discover one of the Moon's most precious resources—water.