Grail Satellites Launch To Map Lunar Gravity

NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (Grail) spacecraft got under way Sept. 10 with launch on a Delta II rocket, kicking off a mission that planetary scientists hope will give them highly accurate measurements of the Moon’s gravity. Launch controllers skipped an attempt at 8:29 a.m. EDT...

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