The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...

United States spacecraft to orbit the Moon was Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 14, 1966. The first orbit was an elliptical orbit, with an apolune of 1,008 nautical...

The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...

objects on the Moon List of missions to the Moon Lunar Orbiter 1 Lunar Orbiter 2 Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 5 Asif Siddiqi (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle...

the Moon List of missions to the Moon Lunar Orbiter 1 Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter 4 Lunar Orbiter 5 "Lunar Orbiter 2". science.nasa.gov. NASA. December...

Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed...

the Moon List of missions to the Moon Lunar Orbiter 1 Lunar Orbiter 2 Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter 4 "Lunar Orbiter 5". science.nasa.gov. NASA. 8 December...

Loren Grush, The Verge April 27, 2018 "How ISRO modified a lunar orbiter into Mars orbiter Mangalyaan, India's "Moon Man" recalls". Zee News. 25 October...

The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which is planned to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as...

are on the far side of the Moon, including Ranger 4, Lunar Orbiter 1, Lunar Orbiter 2, Lunar Orbiter 3, Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. Because of increasing...

Lunar PhotoMap at Lunar and Planetary Institute Lunar Orbiter 1 photo 192, showing the northeastern part of Flamsteed P crater, where Surveyor 1 landed...

Chang'e 1 ( /tʃæŋˈʌ/; simplified Chinese: 嫦娥一号; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥一號; pinyin: Cháng'é yī hào) was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft,...

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that...

was inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. On 14 November 2008, the Moon Impact Probe separated from the Chandrayaan orbiter at 14:36 UTC and struck...

Chang'e 6 lander on lunar surface. The lander-ascender-rover combination was separated with the orbiter and returner before landing on 1 June 2024 at 22:23...

front-facing stereo cameras and hazard avoidance technology. Chang’e 1: The first Chinese lunar orbiter, launched in 2007. It carried a European Space Agency (ESA)...

research using images from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. In both cases, laser pulses were returned from the Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. Controllers finished...

lunar hydrogen deposits, measured magnetic and gravity fields, and studied lunar outgassing events. The mission ended July 31, 1999, when the orbiter...

August 25, 2016. "The Moon". Lunar Orbiter 1. August 23, 1966. Retrieved March 4, 2025. "Scanning and Image Processing". Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)...

location of impact for spent lunar orbiters can have scientific value. For example, in 1999 the NASA Lunar Prospector orbiter was deliberately targeted to...

satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter). The Moon's orbital period (lunar month) and rotation...

The Lunar Orbital Station (Russian: Лунная Орбитальная Станция, romanized: Lunnaya Orbital'naya Stantsiya; LOS) is a proposed Russian space station which...

Lunar Trailblazer was a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, with a mission to detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine...

Luna 1, also known as Mechta (Russian: Мечта [mʲɪt͡ɕˈta], lit.: Dream), E-1 No.4 and First Lunar Rover, was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity...

Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973)...

using data from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. However, it has since been retired. Craters constitute 95% of all named lunar features. Usually they...

incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a soft lander and a rover spacecraft. There have been three missions so far with a total of two orbiters, landers...

"Earthrise" in person for the first time in human history. NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 had taken the first picture of an Earthrise from the vicinity of the...

IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface...