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GRAIL-A Enters Lunar Orbit

Posted by timothy on from the holy-grail-moonman dept.

NASA's twin-craft GRAIL mission, launched way back in September (more information here), has successfully reached its destination. Grail-A has now entered lunar orbit; GRAIL-B is expected to enter lunar orbit tomorrow.

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  1. Re:GRAIL huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    > You're a little off, Grail-A is Canadian, not European.

    How did you get modded up to +4 for that? Grail-A and B are American, not Canadian. Built by Lockheed Martin, a US company, in the US (Denver, specifically), and launched by NASA.

    Nothing against Canada, I love the place, but Grail is very much a US spacecraft.

    It's nuts that posts like that get modded up as "informative".