Selene Releases Second Piggyback Probe
Controllers are checking out the instruments on Japan’s Selene lunar probe after it released its second 50-kg. “daughter” satellite, VRAD, Oct. 12, positioning the Very Long Baseline Interferometer microsat in an orbit about 800 km. above the Moon. Images on board the main spacecraft, dubbed Kaguya...
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