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[b]LADEE enters lunar orbit[/b] NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) entered orbit around the moon on Sunday morning (Oct. 6), a month after launching to study the lunar exosphere. The probe performed a successful four-minute lunar orbit insertion burn beginning at 5:57 a.m. CDT (1057 GMT), allowing it be captured by the moon's gravity in a retrograde equatorial lunar orbit.
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