 The LCRD mission is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.In May 2018 the General Accounting Office says there have been delays, funding cuts, and cost overruns but it should be ready to launch by November 2019, as a payload on a U.S. Air Force Space Test Program satellite STP-3, on an Atlas V 551.The concept was first tested in outer space aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) orbiter in 2013.