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A Description of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
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The U.S. Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft Program was conceived to search out potential Apollo landing sites, and to return detailed photographic coverage of the lunar surface for scientific study. The first flight was launched in August 1966, and the successful launch of the fifth orbiter was in August 1967. All five were successful and returned to Earth a large amount of photographic data.
Presented in this paper is a short description of the spacecraft system with particular emphasis on the photographic system. The intent is to supply information which will permit a better understanding of the photographic data to be presented by Dr. William Brunk in the following paper.
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