LRO pinged India's Vikram moon lander recently as well. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been shooting lasers at Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) in an attempt to hit a retroreflector mounted right beneath the lander’s solar panels ...
Italian Space Agency and iSpace-Europe to deploy the palm-sized optical device on the dark side of the Moon. ispace-Europe and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a deal to transport a compact ...
The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth's true center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025. A set of laser retroreflector arrays, or LRAs, will be ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth's nearest neighbor and ...
In addition, a passive Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) on the top deck of the lander will bounce laser light back at any orbiting or incoming spacecraft to give future spacecraft a permanent ...
An Israeli spacecraft from SpaceIL was launched Thursday, Feb. 21 and is aiming to touch down on Mare Serenitatis two months later. NASA installed a small laser retroreflector aboard the lander to ...