Lunar Orbiter 5

Lunar Orbiter 5 was the last lunar probe of the Lunar Orbiter program of the U.S. space agency NASA. With the Lunar Orbiter program the moon should be photographically recorded and mapped in order to find landing sites for the space probes of the Surveyor program and for the manned lunar landing.

Mission History

The lunar probe launched on August 1, 1967, and became effective on August 5 in a polar, elliptical orbit around the moon one. The orbital altitude was 194-6023 km, the orbital inclination 85 °, the orbital period of 8.5 hours. On August 6, the images of the lunar surface began. On the following day the moon was near reduced to 100 km, and on August 9 the moon at 1499 km distance. On August 18, completed the recordings and the images were radioed to 27 August to Earth. The mission yielded 211 medium-resolution images and 633 images of high resolution. On 31 January 1968, the probe was brought specifically to crash and struck at 3 ° S, 83 ° W on.