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Lunar Orbiter 5

Also known as Lunar Orbiter-E, Orbiter V, Orbiter-E, LunarOrbiter5

NASA · Launched

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Completed · Success

The last of the NASA Lunar Orbiter series, designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side. It returned 633 high resolution and 211 medium resolution frames, bringing cumulative Lunar Orbiter coverage to 99% of the Moon's surface, and was commanded to impact the Moon on 31 January 1968.

Destinations
Moon
Launch vehicle
Atlas-Agena D
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Lunar Orbiter 5 launched

    Earth

  2. Orbit insertion

    Injected into elliptical near polar lunar orbit

    Moon

  3. Milestone

    Photographic readout completed

    Moon

  4. Impact

    Commanded impact on the lunar surface

    Moon

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Lunar Orbiter 5 · Orbiter

    Destinations: Moon

Trajectory record

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Provenance

Sources

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Data verified through August 24, 2026