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Within Vinony's link graph, Lunar Orbiter 4 is referenced by 951 other articles, and connects out to Environmental Research Satellite, European Space Agency and Apollo program.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1967 on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter program and Spacecraft launched in 1967.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1967-041A
- Mission duration
- 180 days
- Manufacturer
- Langley Research Center
- Launch mass
- 385.6 kilograms (850 lb)
- Launch date
- May 4, 1967, 22:25:00 ( 1967-05-04UTC22:25Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-13
- Last contact
- July 17, 1967 ( 1967-07-18 )
- Decay date
- October 6, 1967
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Semi major axis
- 6,152.5 kilometers (3,823.0 mi)
- Periselene altitude
- 4,449 kilometers (2,764 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 7,856 kilometers (4,881 mi)
- Inclination
- 85.5 degrees
- Period
- 721 minutes
- Epoch
- March 7, 1967, 20:00:00 UTC
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Part of
- Lunar Orbiter program
- Image
- Lunar orbiter 1 (large).jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
Show 5 more facts
- time of object orbit decay
- 1967-10-06
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1967-05-04
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 13
- Commons category
- Lunar Orbiter program
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection. It was given a more general objective, to "perform a broad systematic photographic survey of lunar surface features in order to increase the scientific knowledge of their nature, origin, and processes, and to serve as a basis for selecting sites for more detailed scientific study by subsequent orbital and landing missions". It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
Mission summary
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lunar Orbiter 4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations