Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1967-008A
- Website
- science.nasa.gov
- Mission duration
- 8 months, 4 days
- Manufacturer
- Langley Research Center
- Launch mass
- 385.6 kg (850 lb)
- Dimensions
- 3.72 × 1.65 × 1.5 m (12.2 × 5.4 × 4.9 ft)
- Power
- 375 watts
- Launch date
- February 5, 1967, 01:17:01 ( 1967-02-05UTC01:17:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-13
- Disposal
- Deorbited
- Decay date
- October 9, 1967, 10:27:11 ( 1967-10-09UTC10:27:12 ) UTC
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Semi major axis
- 2,694 km (1,674 mi)
- Periselene altitude
- 1,791 km (1,113 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 3,598 km (2,236 mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Lunar Orbiter program
- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Lunar orbiter 1 (large).jpg
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- Commons category
- Lunar Orbiter program
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1967-02-05
- time of object orbit decay
- 1967-10-09
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 13
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
Lunar Orbiter program
The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the lunar surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lunar Orbiter 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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