Planetary Science
LUNAR ORBITER 4
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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 date
- May 4, 1967 at 10:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Lunar Orbiter 4
- Launch record
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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 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