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>"This launch will put the satellite on a trajectory that will take about three months to reach its science orbit," said John Baker, the mission's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "Then Lunar Flashlight will try to find water ice on the surface of the Moon in places that nobody else has been able to look."

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>"This launch will put the satellite on a trajectory that will take about three months to reach its science orbit," said John Baker, the mission's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "Then Lunar Flashlight will try to find water ice on the surface of the Moon in places that nobody else has been able to look."

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I read that as fleshlight. that being said, finding water is essential to creating a base on the moon. Will be interesting to see if they can find a large amount of ice on the moon.

Wow - the orbit comes within 45,000 ft of the moon's surface. That's like (almost) airliner altitude.

Edit: it's also only 6 x 10 x 14 inches in size

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I read “Fleshlight” at first,

And then finished the title and was like “damn. kinky”

I was just reminiscing about Italian ices and water ice. I think they only sell it in the late spring and summer, so they better get up there fast.

Or around 15km for the 96% of the world that doesn't use prehistoric units and actually use a sensible system.

When have you ever heard a pilot say we’re now cruising at approximately 14 kilometres?

In aviation fight altitude is expressed in feet. I’m used to metric but Feet aren’t all that weird here.

Metric is sensible but your comment comes off as a little aggressive.

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Found the European