Planetary Science
LUNAR ORBITER 5
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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.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 1, 1967 at 10:33 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Lunar Orbiter 5
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-075A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2907
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 31, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 31, 1968
- Time in service
- 183 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed