Mission record
Lunar Orbiter 4
Also known as Orbiter IV, Lunar Orbiter-D, Orbiter-D, LunarOrbiter4
NASA · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Success
NASA lunar orbiter given a broader objective than its predecessors: a systematic photographic survey of lunar surface features to increase scientific knowledge of their nature, origin, and processes. It returned 419 high resolution and 127 medium resolution frames covering 99% of the Moon's near side at 58 to 134 meter resolution before contact was lost on 17 July 1967.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas-Agena D
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Orbiter
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Lunar Orbiter 4 · Orbiter
Destinations: Moon
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Lunar Orbiter 4: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · JPL/NAIF Lunar Orbiter 4 LP150Q orbit SPK · Moon-centered J2000 · source gaps retained · May 8, 1967 to July 11, 1967
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 12, 2026
- Lunar Orbiter 4 Moon-relative SPK ephemeris — NAIFEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Orbiter SPICE archive readme — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Orbiter 4 original mission performance report — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Lunar Orbiter Catalog — TWP70-047 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Orbiter photographic data — NSSDC69-05 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Orbiter photographic supporting data — NSSDC71-13 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Lunar Orbiter 4 — current flight history and hardware — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Lunar Orbiter 4 - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- PDS Lunar Orbiter image recovery archive — exposure navigation and photographic metadata — JPLArchive · Supports: mission claims
- Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 — Lunar Orbiter launch records — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context