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Clementine Mission - Lunar Mission
Clementine gave scientists their first total look at the the Moon's landscape. The spacecraft also found signs of a large deposit of ice in a permanently shadowed crater on the Moon's south pole. Clementine completed its mission of 297 lunar orbits. A planned asteroid encounter was cancelled due to a thruster malfunction that burned up its remaining fuel.
Clementine - Lunar Mission
Clementine was the first U.S. spacecraft launched to the Moon in over twenty years (since Explorer 49 in June 1973). The spacecraft, also known as the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE), was designed and built to demonstrate a set of lightweight technologies such as small imaging sensors for future low-cost missions flown by the Department of Defense.