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LUNAR ORBITER 4

DecayedPlanetary ScienceLunarNORAD 2772

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.

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Launch

Launch date
May 4, 1967 at 10:25 PM UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
Operator
United States Air Force
Mission
Lunar Orbiter 4

Trajectory

Regime
Interplanetary — Lunar
Reference body
Lunar

Spacecraft

Operator
United States
Launch mass
389 kg
Dimensions
2.1 × 2 × 5.3 m

Identity

COSPAR (Int'l)
1967-041A
NORAD catalog №
2772
Object type
Payload
Owner / operator
United StatesUnited States
Status
Decayed
Decay / reentry
October 6, 1967

End of mission

Last active / ended
October 6, 1967
Time in service
155 days
Fate
Mission ended at Lunar.
Final status
Decayed