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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.

Bibliography:

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
Baker, David, The History of Manned Spaceflight, Crown, New York, 1981.
Brooks, Courtney G, Grimwood, Hames M, Swenson, Lloyd S, Chariots for Apollo, Government Printing Office, 1989. Web Address when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html.
NASA Report, Particles and Fields Subsatellite Program, Web Address when accessed: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720006214_1972006214.pdf.
NASA Report, Expected communication performance of the Apollo subsatellite, Web Address when accessed: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790073184_1979073184.pdf.

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