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Lunar Trailblazer
The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin with in-house and commercially-available parts and systems. The spacecraft has a box-shaped body with two solar arrays extending from opposite sides.The 200-kg spacecraft carries two instruments—the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3), built by NASA JPL and funded by NASA, and the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM), built by the University of Oxford and funded by the UK Space Agency. The two instruments simultaneously collect two nested “data cubes” that provide the ability to concurrently identify the various forms of water on the Moon, mineralogy, and temperature.