Lunar Orbiter 3, NASA’s third lunar photography mission to map Apollo landing sites and support Surveyor. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 launched it on 5 February 1967 into lunar orbit, returning high-resolution surface imagery before impact on 9 October.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 389 kg
- Flight
- 41st
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 5 February 1967, 01:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1967-008
- Launches in 1967
- 9th of 139
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