Planetary Science
LUNAR ORBITER 3
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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.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 5, 1967 at 01:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Lunar Orbiter 3
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 389 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2666
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 9, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 9, 1967
- Time in service
- 246 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed