The British government is expected to give the OK to the MoonLITE program for launch a lunar orbiter with the capability to study the mysterious Moonquakes which vibrate through the lunar rock. According to The Telegraph, the United Kingdom's lunar probe will fire a series projectile probes [vid] into the Moon's surface to study Moonquakes. Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecommunications Experiment [MoonLITE] is expcted to launch between 2012 and 2014.
Dr. Ian Crawford, at Birkbeck College, University of London, was one of the first scientists to propose the British lunar probe. Crawford will be the Project Scientist for the proposed UK-led MoonLITE mission to the Moon. NASA will cooperate with MoonLITE.
Great Britian would be among the United States, the European Union, Russia, Japan, China, India and Germany with either past, active, or planned lunar research probes. An international agreement forged this year enables selenologists to collaborate.
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