Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Also known as LRO
NASA robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon
Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 2009-031A
- Website
- lunar .gsfc .nasa .gov
- Mission duration
- Primary mission: 1 year Science mission: 2 years Extension 1: 2 years Extension 2: 2 years Elapsed: 16 years, 11 months, 16 days
- Manufacturer
- NASA / GSFC
- Launch mass
- 1,916 kg (4,224 lb)
- Dry mass
- 1,018 kg (2,244 lb)
- Payload mass
- 92.6 kg (204 lb)
- Dimensions
- Launch: 390 × 270 × 260 cm (152 × 108 × 103 in)
- Power
- 1850 W
- Launch date
- June 18, 2009, 21:32:00 ( 2009-06-18UTC21:32Z ) UTC