Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

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Just a day after NASA launched its Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft on a multi-month, ultra-efficient journey to the Moon, it went dark. NASA couldn't communicate with it, despite having received earlier ...

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Future lunar bases could run on solar panels forged from molten moon dust, turning the Moon’s surface into an energy source, thanks to a new research breakthrough. Scientists at the University of ...

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.