Thursday, July 19, 2018

Explorer 35, lunar orbiter, launched 1967


Explorer 35, launched by NASA July 19, 1967, was placed into a lunar orbit.  It carried several scientific instruments: magnetometers, ion chambers, Geiger tubes, a micrometeoroid detector and a Faraday cup.

It met all its mission objectives and was turned off June 24, 1973.  As far as I can tell, it is  still in an elliptical orbit of the moon.

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