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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:Why 3 months? by macson_g · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the ultimate answer:
    www.gg.caltech.edu/~mwl/publications/papers/lowEnergy.pdf

    It's amazing; it forced me to dust my rusty maths. Wonder if one could use it to create plugin for Orbiter...