The Clementine Mission

The Clementine Mission is summarized from purposes of the mission through details of the instruments. The mission was a joint Department of Defense and NASA mission to use lighter instruments and other equipment developed by the military for space exploration. New lightweight items on Clementine include batteries, optical sensors, reaction wheels, star trackers, release systems, and inertial measurement units. Other items include a compression chip set, a solid state data recorder, autonomous navigation, and a 32-bit RISC computer.