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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Lunar Orbiter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the moonlunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions.
		Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch.
		The spacecraft was tracked until it impacted the lunar surface on command at 7 degrees N latitude, 161 degrees E longitude (selenographic coordinates) on the Moon's far side on October 29, 1966[?] on its 577th orbit.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/lu/Lunar_Orbiter_1 (384 words)

	Lunar Orbiter program
		The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned Lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 95 % of the farside, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the farside coverage and acquired medium (20 m) and high (2 m) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas.
		The Lunar Orbiters were all eventually commanded to crash on the Moon before their attitude control gas ran out so they would not present navigational or communications hazards to later Apollo flights.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/lu/lunar_orbiter_program.html (863 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 5
		Lunar Orbiter 5 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.
		The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into three elliptical lunar orbits with apolunes of 6029, 6066, and 4990 kilometers (3,446, 3,769, and 3,100 miles), and perilunes 195, 100, and 99 kilometers (121, 62, and 61 miles).
		The spacecraft was tracked until it impacted the lunar surface on command at 2.79 degrees S latitude, 83 degrees W longitude (selenographic coordinates) on January 31, 1968.
	www.iki.rssi.ru /solar/eng/orbiter5.htm (980 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 2
		The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft 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.
		On 8 December 1966 the inclination was altered to 17.5 degrees to provide new data on lunar gravity.
		The spacecraft was used for tracking purposes until it impacted the lunar surface on command at 3.0 degrees N latitude, 119.1 degrees E longitude (selenographic coordinates) on October 11, 1967.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/lu/lunar_orbiter_2.html (300 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 1 - InformationBlast
		The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft 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.
		Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first two remote images of earth from the distance of the moon, August 23rd 1966.
		A total of 42 high resolution and 187 medium resolution frames were taken and transmitted to Earth covering over 5 million square km of the Moon's surface, accomplishing about 75% of the intended mission, although a number of the early high-res photos showed severe smearing.
	www.informationblast.com /Lunar_Orbiter_1.html (397 words)

	Peirce Crater: Apollo 17 vs Lunar Orbiter 4
		Lunar Orbiter 4 was at an altitude of 5503km when LO4-191H was taken, so the resolution was very low; the size of the smallest resolvable object was 117 meters at a contrast ration of 3:1.
		In the Lunar Orbiter image of Figure 1A, a number of straight furrows run parallel to each other from just beneath the letter A down toward the center of the crater.
		The appearance of furrows in the Lunar Orbiter photograph may be somewhat supported by the similar orientation of ridges in the Apollo photograph.
	www.vgl.org /webfiles/lan/peirce2.htm (1318 words)

	Bill Keel's Space Bits - Tracking Lunar Orbiter V
		As a counterpoint to telescopic observations of the Apollo lunar missions, it turns out that there were earlier observations of spacecraft in lunar orbit.
		Lunar Orbiter IV was put into a high orbit (typically 3350 km above the surface), virtually completing the mapping mission, so mission V was put into a substantially lower orbit for high-resolution images of selected areas.
		The Lunar Orbiters were themselves responsible for some remarkable spectacular photographs - the first view of Earth above the stark lunar surface (I-101H2), a low-angle view of Copernicus (66-H-1470 or II-162H3) that brought home the extent of relief on the Moon, and the overhead view of the Mare Orientale impact basin (IV-187M).
	www.astr.ua.edu /keel/space/lunorbiter.html (653 words)

	Lunar Orbiter
		The Lunar Orbiter spacecraft would be capable of photographing the moon from a distance of 22 miles above the surface.
		Lunar Orbiter II was launched at 6:21 p.m.
		Lunar Orbiter II mission as of November 28 indicated that the first phase of the photographic mission was completed when the final photo was taken on the afternoon of November 25.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/lunbiter.htm (2042 words)

	InfoDense - Web - Lunar Orbiter Missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 and 1967 to study the Moon.
		Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unpiloted Lunar orbiter missions...
		The Orbiter missions were necessary in order to prepare lunar surface maps in...
	www.infodense.com /topic?i=Lunar%20Orbiter%20Missions (252 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 5
		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.
		The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and on 5 August 1967 was injected into an elliptical near polar lunar orbit 194.5 km x 6023 km with an inclination of 85 degrees and a period of 8 hours 30 minutes.
		A total of 633 high resolution and 211 medium resolution frames at resolution down to 2 meters were acquired, bringing the cumulative photographic coverage by the 5 Lunar Orbiters to 99% of the Moon's surface.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Lunar_Orbiter_5 (314 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Year: 1960 - 1969: Lunar Orbiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings.
		All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was photographed with a resolution of 60 m or better.
		The images at the top of the page show the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft with the high and medium resolution cameras at the center, and an image of the crater Tycho taken with the Lunar Orbiter 5 medium resolution camera.
	sse.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Chron&StartYear=1960&EndYear=1969&MCode=LunarOrb (183 words)

	info: Lunar_Orbiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lunar Orbiter to the Moon (1966 - 1967)Detailed information, experiments, data, and images on the five survey missions (1966-1967).
		Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the...
		Lunar Orbiter 2The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Lunar_Orbiter.html (523 words)

	Lunar Orbiter
		During 1966 through 1967, five Lunar Orbiter spacecrafts were launched, with the purpose of mapping the Moon's surface in preparation for the Apollo and Surveyor landings.
		The first three Lunar Orbiters were mostly dedicated to obtaining detailed photographs of 20 areas preselected as possible future landing sites.
		Lunar Orbiters 4 and 5 concentrated on more general mapping, covering 99% of the lunar surface including most of the farside.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/space_missions/lunar_orbiter.html&link=/tour/link=/headline_universe/comet_neat_feb_2003.html (144 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project
		Access the latest data releases and view maps showing the processing status of the very high resolution Lunar Orbiter frames from missions III and V. Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 and 1967 to study the Moon.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the near-side and 95% of the far-side of the Moon.
		Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the photography of the far-side and collected medium- and high- resolution imagery of 36 preselected regions.
	astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/LunarOrbiterDigitization (1169 words)

	Soviet Missions to the Moon
		The Soviet Lunar program had 20 successful missions to the Moon and achieved a number of notable lunar "firsts": first probe to impact the Moon, first flyby and image of the lunar farside, first soft landing, first lunar orbiter, and the first circumlunar probe to return to Earth.
		Lunar flyby missions (Luna 3, Zond 3, 6, 7, 8) obtained photographs of the lunar surface, particularly the limb and farside regions.
		The purpose of the photography experiments on the lunar landers (Luna 9, 13, 22) was to obtain closeup images of the surface of the Moon for use in lunar studies and determination of the feasibility of manned lunar landings.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html (428 words)

	InfoDense - Web - Lunar Orbiter
		Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the farside coverage and acquired medium...
		Of the 1654 Lunar Orbiter photographs, 840 depict areas photographed on the...
		Lunar Orbiter is a T-26 font family with 1 style priced from $29.00.
	www.infodense.com /topic?i=Lunar%20Orbiter (268 words)

	Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
		The Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Bowker and Hughes (NASA SP-206) is considered the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of the Moon.
		The images contained within the atlas are excellent for studying lunar morphology because they were obtained at low to moderate Sun angles.
		The digital Lunar Orbiter Atlas of the Moon is a reproduction of the 675 plates contained in Bowker and Hughes.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /research/lunar_orbiter/index.html (268 words)

	Mirago : Science: Technology: Space: Missions: Unmanned: Moon: Lunar Orbiter
		Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon - Digital edition of Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas, 1971, with all 675 plates.
		Lunar Orbiter to the Moon - Information and data on the five lunar orbiter missions (1966-1967).
		Lunar Orbiter - Detailed information, experiments, data, and images on the five survey missions (1966-1967).
	www.miragorobot.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2fScience%2fTechnology%2fSpace%2fMissions%2fUnmanned%2fMoon%2fLunar_Orbiter (131 words)

	The Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon Online
		Lunar Orbiter 4 mapped the entire near side of the Moon at an average resolution of about 100 meters per line pair.
		Lunar Orbiter 5 filled in some gaps in Apollo site certification, but mostly obtained detailed, high-resolution images of a variety of scientific targets around the Moon.
		After 30 years, the Lunar Orbiter photographs remain the principal reference set of images for the scientific study of surface landforms on the Moon.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/lunar-01a.html (586 words)

	Chronology of Space Exploration
		Lunar Prospector was launched on January 6, 1998 and arrived at the Moon on January 11, 1998.
		The Mars 2 lander was released from the orbiter on November 27, 1971.
		The orbiter weighed 900 kg and the lander 600 kg.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/craft2.htm (8246 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 1
		The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft 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.
		The spacecraft was tracked until it impacted the lunar surface on command at 7 degrees N latitude, 161 degrees E longitude (selenographic coordinates) on October 29, 1966.
		The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft carried 20 micrometeoroid detectors, located on the tank deck periphery, for the detection of micrometeoroids in the lunar environment.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/orbiter1.htm (972 words)

	Lunar Orbiter
		Lunar Orbiter 2 blev især kendt for sine billeder af Kopernikus-krateret, som blev taget den 23.
		Lunar Orbiter 5 sendte 212 billeder hovedsagelig af den del af Månen, der vender væk fra Jorden.
		Lunar Orbiter 5 knustes imod måneoverfladen den 31.
	www.rumfart.dk /vis.asp?id=211 (465 words)

	China's 1st Lunar Orbiter Equals 2km of Subway
		The investment for the lunar project is negligible compared to the country's huge GDP, but "we must make careful plans and calculations to do it well," said Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the country's lunar program, on Friday at the ongoing 36th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).
		According to the chief scientist, Chinese scientists completed the designing of the Chang-e-1 in 2004 and the building of the lunar orbiter reached its primary stage in 2005.
		In the long term, the chief scientist said, China's lunar program is divided into three stages - an unmanned lunar flight, a manned lunar voyage and the building of a lunar base.
	www.china.org.cn /english/scitech/175522.htm (305 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 4
		The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft 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.
		The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition.
		At an altitude of 2,700 kilometers (1,670 miles), which was approximately the perilune height, the system photographed over 85 percent of the lunar surface.
	www.iki.rssi.ru /solar/eng/orbiter4.htm (866 words)

	notes7
		The discoveries made of the Moon's gravitational field by tracking the five spacecraft, especially Orbiter V, revealed the existence of large mass concentrations under the ringed maria on the nearside of the Moon.
		This orbital data enabled NASA scientists to construct a gravimetric map of the Moon is nearside in 1968, and the discovery of ìmasconsî by scientists of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the presence of gravitational anomalies for both the Lunar Orbiter Program and the Apollo Program.
		Lunar Orbiter Discussion with Dr. Gordon MacDonald, September 24, 1963, Memorandum to the Record, October 2, 1963.
	history.nasa.gov /TM-3487/notes7.htm (663 words)

	Lunar Orbiter - MedPort-Lexikon
		Für Lunar Orbiter 1 bis 3 wurden Umlaufbahnen mit niedriger Bahnneigung gewählt, die ausschließlich über Gebiete in der Nähe des Äquators führten.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 und 5 wurden dagegen auf polare Umlaufbahnen gebracht, die eine Kartierung der kompletten Mondoberfläche erlaubten.
		Durch die Fotos von "Lunar Orbiter 4" wurde aus einem höheren Orbit die Mondvorderseite fast vollständig und die Rückseite zu etwa 3/4 erfasst.
	www.medport.de /lexikon/index.php/Lunar_Orbiter (693 words)

	Cronologia 1966
		I successivi Lunar Orbiter furono inviati nello spazio a intervalli di circa tre mesi.
		Il Lunar Orbiter 1 inquadrò i possibili luoghi di atterraggio per l’Apollo a sud dell’equatore.
		Nel 1964, due anni prima dell’inizio del programma Lunar Orbiter, prendeva avvio in URSS il programma Zond (sonda); e nonostante il programma fosse nato proprio per l’esplorazione lunare, il programma previde l’invio di Zond 1 e Zond 2 rispettivamente verso Venere e Marte.
	www.pd.astro.it /othersites/altrimondi/prot02_117/cronologia_1966.htm (355 words)

	SPACE.com -- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Searching For A 'New Moon'
		LRO is also to investigate the lunar radiation environment in terms of impact on humans.
		Watzin said that low lunar orbit is inherently unstable, due to the asymmetry of the lunar gravitational field.
		In the 1960s, NASA's Lunar Orbiter missions acquired meter scale imaging for a small percentage of the Moon, Robinson said, mostly in equatorial mare regions of the nearside.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/060207_lro_technology.html (1592 words)

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