"Artemis 1 Cubesat Discovers Lunar Water and Ice, Completes Mission"

NASA has announced the end of its Artemis 1 moon mission ride-along cubesat, LunaH-Map, which successfully detected water and ice on the lunar surface. Although the cubesat missed mapping the moon's south pole due to a stuck valve in its propulsion system, it achieved its main objective with its neutron spectrometer. The data collected will inform future missions, and a version of the spectrometer will fly on another NASA mission called Lunar-VISE. Despite some challenges faced by other cubesats in the Artemis 1 mission, the larger mission met all its major goals, and NASA is now focusing on Artemis 2 and Artemis 3.