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The second stage of the Lockheed Martin Launch  Vehicle-2 (LMLV-2) arrives aboard a truck at Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air  Station before it is mated to the first stage, seen in the center of the pad structure in the  background. The LMLV-2 will carry the Lunar Prospector spacecraft, scheduled to launch  in October for an 18-month mission that will orbit the Earth’s moon to collect data from  the lunar surface. Scientific experiments to be conducted by the Prospector include  locating water ice that may exist near the lunar poles, gathering data to understand the  evolution of the lunar highland crust and the lunar magnetic field, finding radon  outgassing events, and describing the lunar gravity field by means of Doppler tracking KSC-97PC1100

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The second stage of the Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle-2 (LMLV-2) arrives aboard a truck at Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Station before it is mated to the first stage, seen in the center of the pad structure in the background. The LMLV-2 will carry the Lunar Prospector spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October for an 18-month mission that will orbit the Earth’s moon to collect data from the lunar surface. Scientific experiments to be conducted by the Prospector include locating water ice that may exist near the lunar poles, gathering data to understand the evolution of the lunar highland crust and the lunar magnetic field, finding radon outgassing events, and describing the lunar gravity field by means of Doppler tracking KSC-97PC1100

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The second stage of the Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle-2 (LMLV-2) arrives aboard a truck at Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Station before it is mated to the first stage, seen in the center of the pad structure in the background. The LMLV-2 will carry the Lunar Prospector spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October for an 18-month mission that will orbit the Earth’s moon to collect data from the lunar surface. Scientific experiments to be conducted by the Prospector include locating water ice that may exist near the lunar poles, gathering data to understand the evolution of the lunar highland crust and the lunar magnetic field, finding radon outgassing events, and describing the lunar gravity field by means of Doppler tracking

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19/07/1997
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Cape Canaveral, FL
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