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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