Objectives of program were to obtain photographic coverage of potential Apollo and Surveyor landing sites on moon and information on gravitational field of moon; landing site search at 1-m resolution was essentially completed by end of third flight; remaining flights provided 100-m resolution map of lunar front side and closeup views of scientifically interesting sites; lunar orbit design is developed in terms of mission requirements and predicted effects due to Earth and lunar gravitational fields; errors experienced in predicting spacecraft trajectory during flight are indicated to be due to large irregularities in lunar gravitational field. (28969)
Lunar orbiter missions design
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 6 , n 1
1969
7 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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