NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon's south pole. The briefcase-sized spacecraft was launched on November 16 last year as part of the Artemis I flight, which was testing the agency's Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule in preparation for its next crewed mission to the Moon. LunaH-Map - or Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper - performed a flyby around the Moon but failed to enter the planned orbit. The goal was to study the lunar south pole and to dip to altitudes as low as 10 kilometers (6.

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