Selene Lowers Orbit To Observation Altitude
Controllers will spend the next three weeks checking out the science instruments on Japan’s Selene lunar orbiter, now in final science observation orbit at an average altitude of 100 km. (62 mi.). The orbit lowering was completed Oct. 19 and confirmed by JAXA the next day. With Selene in position...
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