1967-08-01 · 59 years ago

Lunar Orbiter 5 — launch

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Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data and was used to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program. The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and on August 5, 1967 was injected into an elliptical near polar lunar orbit 194.5 by 6,023 kilometres (120.9 mi × 3,742.5 mi) with an inclination of 85 degrees and a period of 8 hours 30 minutes.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_5. Related NASA reference: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lunar-orbiter-5/. Description adapted from Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Category
Launches and Flight Tests
Type
Orbital launch
Subjects
Space transportation
Mission
Lunar Orbiter 5
Organization
NASA Lewis Research Center
Participants
USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization
Vehicle
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
Location
Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida
Country
US
Outcome
Successful

Context and qualifications

Launch code: DS. Source references: TR-1022; -.

Sources and attribution

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