
	Where results make sense

Topic: Lunar Orbiter 5

Related Topics

Lunar Orbiter 2

Lunar Orbiter

July 31st

In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Lunar Orbiter program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 main bus of the Lunar Orbiter had the general shape of a truncated cone, 1.65 metres tall and 1.5 m in diameter at the base.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program (919 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.solarviews.com /span/orbiter5.htm (992 words)

	LUNAR ORBITER 4 FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lunar Orbiter 4 was designed to take advantage of the fact that the three previous Lunar 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".
		The spacecraft was used for tracking purposes until it impacted the lunar surface due to the natural decay of the orbit no later than October_31, 1967, between 22--30 degrees W longitude.
	www.witwib.com /Lunar_Orbiter_4 (450 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_5 (344 words)

	Lunar Orbiter
		The Lunar Orbiters’ primary mission was to obtain topographic data in the lunar equatorial region between 43° E and 56° W to help in the selection of suitable landing sites for the unmanned Surveyor and manned Apollo missions.
		With this objective achieved by Lunar Orbiter 3, the remaining two flights were able to carry out further photography of lunar surface features for purely scientific purposes.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 95% of the farside; Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the farside coverage and acquired medium (20 m) and high (2 m) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Lunar_Orbiter.html (247 words)

	Honeysuckle Creek
		Lunar Orbiter I was launched from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 13 at 1526 EDT on 10 August 1966, the Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle injecting the spacecraft into its planned 90-hour trajectory to the moon.
		Lunar Orbiter I achieved its mission objectives, and, with the exception of the high-resolution camera, the performance of the photo subsystem and other spacecraft subsystems was outstanding.
		At one stage Lunar Orbiter V was manoeuvred to reflect sunlight from its solar panels and underside mirrors with the reflected rays to be photographed by telescopes on Earth.
	www.honeysucklecreek.net /msfn_missions/preparingforapollo/Lunar_Orbiter/hl_lunar_orbiter.html (4685 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: Lunar Orbiter Mission
		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 /Missions/LunarOrbiter (152 words)

	Thesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lunar Orbiter program consisted of five unmanned missions to the moon during the mid 1960’s whose main purpose was to locate and investigate areas on the moon that would be most appropriate for landing areas.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the near side and most of the far side of the moon.
		Lunar Orbiter 5 completed survey of the far side of the moon and also took high-resolution photographs of 36 preselected areas.
	www.cis.rit.edu /research/thesis/bs/1998/sivanandam/thesis.html (6469 words)

	ch10-3
		Lunar Orbiter IV experienced a higher dose of radiation than had the previous Orbiters: 5.5 rads recorded by the radiation dosimeter for the film supply cassette versus 0.75 rads on earlier Orbiters.
		The key to the Orbiter IV farside photography as well as to all farside photography of the five Lunar Orbiter missions was the Flight Programmer, previously discussed.
		Lunar Orbiter IV was in its thirty-fourth orbit around the Moon and had photographed its surface as far as the 100° west meridian.
	history.nasa.gov /TM-3487/ch10-3.htm (2009 words)

	[2.0] The Exploration Of The Moon (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following Galileo's initial sketches of the lunar surface, a series of more detailed maps were produced, resulting in a map produced by the Italian astronomers Giambattista Riccoli and Francesco Grimaldi in 1651 that identified all the major features and assigned them their modern names.
		Lunar Orbiter was a 384 kilogram spacecraft, with the primary payload consisting of a a high resolution camera (HRC) and medium resolution camera (MRC).
		Lunar Orbiter 3 was launched on 05 February 1967, and returned 182 frames before its film-advance mechanism failed.
	www.vectorsite.net /taxpl_02.html (6610 words)

	boulder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Lunar Orbiter 5 recorded this evidence of objects moving on the Moon on the slope of the central peak of Vitello.
		Chapter 5 refers to the argument about whether Sabine-Ritter-type craters with high floors and smooth rims are calderas or impact craters whose floors rose like elevators.
		So many other block fields seen by Lunar Orbiters coincide with the telescopic hot spots that no doubt remained that blocks are the source of the "heat" - that is, they radiate solar heat relatively quickly.
	www.astrosurf.com /lunascan/boulder.htm (422 words)

	Chronology of Space Exploration
		The Mars 2 lander was released from the orbiter on November 27, 1971.
		The orbiter weighed 900 kg and the lander 600 kg.
		Lunar Prospector was launched on January 6, 1998 and arrived at the Moon on January 11, 1998.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/solar/eng/craft1.htm (6808 words)

	Lunar Orbiter
		The Lunar Orbiter spacecraft would be capable of photographing the moon from a distance of 22 miles above the surface.
		Photographs obtained during the mission were assessed and screened by representatives of the Lunar Orbiter Project Office, U.S. Geological Survey, DOD mapping agencies, MSC, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
		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 (1828 words)

	PERMANENT - Lunar Materials - Probes
		Lunar Prospector carried five instruments to study the moon, and the spacecraft was largely made from off-the-shelf, flight-proven hardware -- used whenever feasible.
		Lunar Prospector's five sensors include a Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) and a Neutron Spectrometer (NS) to provide global maps of elemental abundances on the lunar surface (in addition to water).
		Data from all the lunar probes, including the massive amounts of detailed data from Clementine 1 and Lunar Prospector, are open to the public and can be acquired by internet at the NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html or ordered on CD-ROMs.
	www.permanent.com /l-probes.htm (1202 words)

	Lunar Orbiter Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lunar Orbiter program, initiated in early 1964, consisted of the investigation of the Moon by five identical unmanned spacecraft.
		Of the 1654 Lunar Orbiter photographs, 840 depict areas photographed on the basis of Apollo program requirements and were obtained primarily during missions 1, 2, and 3.
		The remaining 814 photographs were taken primarily during missions 4 and 5 and included 703 of the lunar nearside, 105 of the lunar farside, and 6 of Earth.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/orbiter/orbiter.html (611 words)

	preface.htm
		Although Lunar Orbiter was not a "crash" effort, it did require that Langley Research Center set up a development and testing schedule in which various phases of the project would run nearly concurrently.
		Lunar Orbiter was history for them, but the experience from that program was already helping them in their newest endeavor.
		I dedicate it to all the people who worked to make Lunar Orbiter the success it wasthat they might have a record of their accomplishments to share with future generations.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/TM-3487/preface.htm (787 words)

	Space Stamp of the Day Archive- 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lunar Orbiter 2 was the second of five successful reconaissance flights sent to survey potential Apollo lunar landing sites.
		One of Lunar Orbiter 3's targets was an area near the crater Flamsteed in the Ocean of Storms.
		After their missions were completed, all the Lunar Orbiters were crashed onto the surface so that they wouldn't intefere with the later Apollo manned flights.
	members.aol.com /NYRocketScience/space/1966/1966.htm (2654 words)

	Lunar Meteorite Ages Strongly Support 'Lunar Cataclysm' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lunar meteorite ages present new, strong evidence for the "lunar cataclysm," a 20-to-200 million-year episode of intense bombardment of the moon and the Earth at 3.9 billion years ago -- when the first evidence of life appeared on Earth, planetary scientists report in the Dec. 1 issue of Science.
		Whether or not there was life on Earth at the beginning of the bombardment, such cataclysmic pounding would have enormous consequences for life on this planet, whether by destroying existing life or organic fragments or by delivering molecules and creating conditions suitable for life, the researchers add.
		Barbara Cohen of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville analyzed the lunar meteorite ages for her dissertation research at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
	uanews.opi.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=2732 (803 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
		The Lunar Orbiter program consisted of 5 Lunar Orbiters which returned photography of 99% of the surface of the Moon (near and far side) with resolution down to 1 meter.
		The main bus of the Lunar Orbiter had the general shape of a truncated cone, 1.65 meters tall and 1.5 meters in diameter at the base.
		At an altitude of 46 km, which was approximately the perilune height, the HR system photographed a 4.15- by 16.6-km area of the lunar surface which was centered on a 31.6- by 37.4-km area photographed by the MR system.
	www.skyrocket.de /space/doc_sdat/lunar-orbiter.htm (812 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project
		Access sample data 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 5 completed the photography of the far-side and collected medium- and high- resolution imagery of 36 preselected regions.
		Lunar Orbiter (LO) images were photographic products acquired on the spacecraft during those five missions (LO-I through -V).
	astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/LunarOrbiterDigitization (949 words)

	PDS Data Set Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		observations from Lunar Orbiters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and from the
		Orbiters and Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellites as measured from
		Lunar Orbiter-5 51 33.74 47,690 Apollo-15 subsatellite 81 16.76
	starbrite.jpl.nasa.gov /pds/viewProfile.jsp?dsid=CLEM1-L-RSS-5-GRAVITY-V1.0 (1324 words)

	On Lunar Exporation
		The history of lunar exploration began in 1959, just two years after the launch of Sputnik 1.
		The discovery of water is immensely significant to to future of lunar exploration.
		Several new ideas are being worked on, and with luck one of these might even bring the cost of lunar travel into the realm of the rich adventurers who would otherwise be ballooning around the world.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /cyc_expl.htm (609 words)

	Associazione Lunar Explorer Italia - Fotografie ed Immagini della Luna, Marte, Il Sistema Solare e l'Universo - Before ...
		Crescent Earth from the Lunar Orbiter 1-25 visteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 1 new of the Moon and crescent Earth.
		Oblique view of Copernicus Crater from Lunar Orbiter 2-31 visteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 2 oblique northward view of the interior of the 100 Km diameter Copernicus Crater on the Moon.
		Bruce Crater and Sinus Medii-21 visteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 3 oblique view of Bruce Crater in the foreground and the Sinus Medii Mare plain on the Moon.
	www.lunexit.it /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=60&page=3 (1013 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It also is used to give the option to advance to the next page, the option to close the browswe window,and to give a print page option.
		"Lunar Orbiter-E" NSSDC ID: 67-075A Description: 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 (apolunes 6029, 6066, and 4990 km, perilunes 195, 100, and 99 Km) for data acquisition.
	lunar.arc.nasa.gov /history/timeline/info/orbiter501.htm (247 words)

	Lunar Orbiter 5
		Lunar Orbiter 5 was launched on August 1st, 1967 and entered an elliptical near polar high lunar orbit on August 5th, 1967.
		Surveyor 5 was launched on September 8th, 1967 and touched down on the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) on September 11th, 1967.
		This lunar "hop" represented the first powered takeoff from the lunar surface and furnished new information on the effects of firing rocket engines on the Moon, allowed viewing of the original landing site, and provided a baseline for stereoscopic viewing and photogrammetric mapping of the surrounding terrain.
	www.finetuning.com /articles/p6-507-a-brief-history-of-the-exploration-of-the-moon.html (359 words)

	Lunar Orbiter - Space Missions - Mars,Earth,Jupiter,Venus,Saturn,Neptune,Moon,Mercury... - Our Universe with all ...
		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.
		Lunar Orbiter 4 image of the Moon centered on the Mare Orientale Basin.
	www.netmoon.com /galaxy/missions/lunar.htm (355 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)