Clementine
Clementine was a joint U.S. technology-demonstration and lunar-science mission. Its compact sensor suite mapped the Moon globally from polar orbit and tested lightweight spacecraft systems before a propulsion-control malfunction ended the planned continuation to asteroid 1620 Geographos.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Deep Space Program Science ExperimentDSPSE
- Name
- Clementine
- Slug
- clementine
- Status
- completed
Details
- Astronauts
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- Description
- Clementine was a joint U.S. technology-demonstration and lunar-science mission. Its compact sensor suite mapped the Moon globally from polar orbit and tested lightweight spacecraft systems before a propulsion-control malfunction ended the planned continuation to asteroid 1620 Geographos.
- End Date
- 1994-08-08
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Clementine completed its lunar objectives, returning about 1.6 million digital images over 297 lunar orbits. A thruster malfunction exhausted its attitude-control propellant after lunar departure, so the planned Geographos flyby was canceled and the mission later ended in heliocentric orbit.
- Program
- Deep Space Program Science Experiment
- Start Date
- 1994-01-25
- Vehicle Families
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/clementine/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 13:32:15 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 13:32:15 UTC
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