THE LADEE TRAJECTORY AS FLOWN

The LADEE spacecraft launched on a Minotaur-V launch vehicle from Wallops Flight Facility on 7 September 2013 at 3:27 UTC as planned into a 6.4 day orbit. After three cis-lunar phasing maneuvers, LADEE achieved lunar orbit on 6 October 2013, and entered a 232 x 247 km commissioning orbit on 13 October 2013. LADEE performed many successful maneuvers to execute the baseline science mission plus an extended mission through April of 2014. Final maneuvers executed in early April led to a planned lunar impact on 18 April 2014.