Planetary Science
LUNAR ORBITER 2
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The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 6, 1966 at 11:21 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Lunar Orbiter 2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-100A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2534
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 1967
- Time in service
- 339 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed