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Class: Planetary. Type: Lunar. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Released from Apollo; particles and fields experiments. Lunar Orbit (Selenocentric).
SpecificationTotal Mass: 36 kg.
PFS Chronology
26 July 1971
Apollo 15 Subsatellite Program: Apollo. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Saturn V. Mass: 36 kg. Released from Apollo 15 into lunar orbit on 4 August 1971; studied lunar particles and included fields experiments.
16 April 1972
Apollo 16 Subsatellite Program: Apollo. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Saturn V. Mass: 36 kg. Released from Apollo 16 into lunar orbit on 24 April 1972; fields and particles data; impacted lunar surface.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 26 - Baker, David, The History of Manned Spaceflight, Crown, New York, 1981.
- 27 - Brooks, Courtney G, Grimwood, Hames M, Swenson, Lloyd S, Chariots for Apollo, Government Printing Office, 1989. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html
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