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In 2009 NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, designed to map the Moon's surface in even more detail and carrying several instruments that might be able to detect ice.

To find this subsurface water, ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were designed with ground-penetrating radars, MARSIS and SHARAD.

Sensors onboard the orbiter are designed to detect minute levels of atmospheric gases, including methane which has stumped scientists since its detection by the Mars Express orbiter more than a decade ago.

Moreover, the shuttle engines are part of the winged orbiter, which is designed to carry both crew and payload for up to 20 missions.

In January, NASA asked its centers to develop proposals that would increase understanding of the Moon without interfering with the timing and primary mission of the orbiter, which is designed to do high-resolution lunar mapping to find potential landing sites.

AKATSUKI is the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter that was designed to investigate the climate system of Venus.

The lightning and airglow camera (LAC) onboard the Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, was designed to observe the light curve of possible flashes at a sufficiently high sampling rate to discriminate lightning from other sources and can thereby perform a more definitive search for optical emissions.

The RV-2N-series instruments onboard Luna missions and the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument onboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were designed to characterize the global lunar radiation environment and its biological impacts by measuring cosmic ray (CR) intensity.

The ramp's insulating foam surrounded the struts connecting the tank to the orbiter, and were originally designed to prevent ice from forming and becoming a debris hazard.

Among them, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) was designed to obtain altimetry, surface roughness, and reflectance measurements.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.