Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE): mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- September 1, 2013
- Declared end
- February 17, 2014
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was a robotic mission that, from low lunar orbit, gathered detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. LADEE was launched in September 2013 and carried out lunar orbital operations for 223 days, concluding when the spacecraft was decommissioned by impact into the moon in April 2014.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.ladee
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/