Lunar Orbiter 3

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

01:17:00

Sunday February 5, 1967

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Mission Details

Lunar Orbiter 3

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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 surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

386 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D

Active 1964 to 1967


Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,825 kg

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-13

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

73 days 13 hours

Stats

Atlas-Agena


89th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1967

1967


9th

Orbital launch attempt