Lunar Trailblazer passed its systems integration review in May and is scheduled to be completed in early 2023.
Lunar Trailblazer is one of three missions NASA selected in 2019 as part of the Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program.
Lunar Trailblazer is scheduled for completion late 2022 but will not launch until early 2025 because of delays in the primary payload of its rideshare mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).
Lunar Trailblazer was scheduled to be ready for launch in late 2022 but is planned to fly in early 2025 as part of a NASA rideshare mission whose primary payload is the IMAP space science spacecraft.
The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was scheduled to be completed in October 2022.
Lunar Trailblazer is part of NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, which in 2019 selected Lunar Trailblazer and two other mission concepts for development.
Lunar Trailblazer will not launch until at least February 2025 because it is flying as a rideshare payload on the Falcon 9 launch of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).
Lunar Trailblazer, developed by Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a lunar orbiter designed to map water ice deposits using advanced infrared instruments.