Lunar Orbiter 4, NASA’s fourth Lunar Orbiter, which entered a near-polar lunar orbit to photograph the Moon’s polar and far-side regions for Apollo site selection and global mapping. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 launched it on 4 May 1967; it returned 163 medium- and high-resolution frames.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 389 kg
- Flight
- 43rd
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 4 May 1967, 22:25 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
- 1967-041
- Launches in 1967
- 45th of 139
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