The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...

United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...

The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...

1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface...

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 Orbiter Program. NASA. ISBN 978-1-495-92029-5. NASA-TM-X-3487. Retrieved 12 November 2022. "Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery - Mission 5". Lunar and Planetary...

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 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...

Zond program — USSR Lunar exploration (1964–1970) Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967)...

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that...

lunar outpost designs. Exploration of the Moon List of future lunar missions Lunar ice Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "Lunar Precursor Robotic Program"...

completed Lunar Orbiter program Lunar Orbiter 1, launched August 1966, completed Lunar Orbiter 2, launched November 1966, completed Lunar Orbiter 3, launched...

was an indication the programs were at similar stages. Atlas (rocket family) Luna programme Lunar Orbiter program Ranger program Exploration of the Moon...

the last five used the Atlas-Centaur. The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States, starting...

Organisation (ISRO) for the exploration of the Moon. The program incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a soft lander and a rover spacecraft. There...

rolling contours of the lunar surface. Apollo program Luna programme Lunar Orbiter program Pioneer program Surveyor program Timeline of Solar System...

Byers, Bruce K. (April 1977). "DESTINATION MOON: A History of the Lunar Orbiter Program". NASA. Retrieved December 18, 2010. "GAMBIT 1 KH-7 Reconnaissance...

The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using the Long March series of rockets. A human lunar landing...

The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a planned space station which is to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as...

lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program...

The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully...

Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions in...

labeled "Orbiter 2024", was released on 31 December 2024. On 27 July 2021, its developer, Martin Schweiger, announced to the community that Orbiter is being...

the Danuri, a lunar orbiter launched in 2022, and a future lunar lander, scheduled to be launched in 2032. South Korea's first lunar orbiter is named Danuri...

Boeing-built bombers. In 1965 he was placed in charge of the company's Lunar Orbiter Program Office, as an assistant division manager in the Spacecraft Systems...

on 7 December 2018, and entering lunar orbit on 12 December as a part of China's Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. While not specifically made for the...

The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...

Nikon NASA F4 Pioneer program, 1958–1960 Pioneer 1, television camera Pioneer 2, television camera Lunar Orbiter program, Lunar Orbiter 1–5, 1966–1967 The...

shots of the lunar surface. Orbiter spacecraft require less thrust and propellant than landers, but still require enough to achieve lunar orbit insertion...

location of impact for spent lunar orbiters can have scientific value. For example, in 1999 the NASA Lunar Prospector orbiter was deliberately targeted to...