The space agency has until the end of April to place its Lunar Flashlight probe in an orbit around the Moon, otherwise the tiny spacecraft will be lost.
when three of its four thrusters were underperforming on account of
obstructed fuel lines. The team behind the mission have been working on ways to partially restore one or more of the Flashlight’s thrusters so that the spacecraft can stay in orbit in the Earth-Moon system, according to NASA. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight has until the end of April to generate the thrust required to conduct monthly flybys of the lunar South Pole.have had some success but continue to try new things to clear the suspected obstructions in the thruster fuel lines,” NASA wrote in its statement.
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