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Northrop Grumman-built LCROSS Satellite Impacts Moon

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Monday, October 12th, 2009

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Astronomers and space enthusiasts worldwide cheered as the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) successfully impacted the moon's Cabeus crater Oct. 9, according to Northrop Grumman [NOC], which built and integrated LCROSS under contract to NASA Ames Research Center. "The success of this mission is a tribute to the tremendous engineering skills and partnership between Northrop Grumman and NASA Ames Research Center," said Steve Hixson, vice president of Advanced Concepts-Space and Directed Energy Systems for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.…

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