Mini-RF Overview
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Overview
The Mini-RF project will fly two radar instruments to the moon to map the lunar poles, search for water ice, and to demonstrate future NASA communication technologies. The first instrument launched on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and will map both polar regions. The second instrument will fly on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and will perform targeted radar observations and communications demonstrations.
News and Events
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NASA And ISRO Satellites Perform In Tandem To Search For Ice On The Moon
NASA and ISRO will attempt a novel joint experiment that could yield more information on whether ice exists in a permanently shadowed crater near the north pole of the moon.
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NASA Radar Tandem Searches For Ice On The Moon
With the Mini-RF instrument flying aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, the space agency now has two powerful tools searching for ice on the moon.
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NASA Returning to the Moon with First Lunar Launch in a Decade
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.
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Mini-SAR Nears Completion of First Mapping Cycle
The Mini-SAR imaging radar aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has been sending back some amazing images for the last couple of months. With the mission's first radar mapping season nearing an end, scientists are looking at and evaluating the data in hand. Read a first-hand account from Instrument Principal Investigator Paul Spudis.