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Class: Planetary. Type: Lunar Orbiter. Destination: Moon. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Released from Apollo; particles and fields experiments. Lunar Orbit (Selenocentric).

Mass: 36 kg (79 lb).


PFS Chronology
  • 1971 July 26 - Apollo 15 Subsatellite - Program: Apollo. Flight: Apollo 15. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC39A. Launch Vehicle: Saturn V. Mass: 36 kg (79 lb).
    Released from Apollo 15 into 102 x 142 km lunar orbit on 4 August 1971 at 20:13:29 GMT; studied lunar particles and included fields experiments. Last telemetry from lunar orbit in 1984.

  • 1972 April 16 - Apollo 16 Subsatellite - Program: Apollo. Flight: Apollo 16. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC39A. Launch Vehicle: Saturn V. Mass: 36 kg (79 lb).
    Released from Apollo 16 into lunar orbit on 24 April 1972 at 21:56:09 GMT into a 96 km x 122 km orbit; fields and particles data; impacted lunar surface 29 May 1972.


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