Lunar Orbiter

American  

noun

U.S. Aerospace.

1. one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.

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Example Sentences

For the study, the researchers primarily used data from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, instruments onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Moon since 2009.

From Science Daily

As a follow-on to KPLO, there could be another lunar orbiter.

From Science Magazine

India’s first lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, collected some of the data that confirmed the presence of water on the moon.

From New York Times

India’s first lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, collected some of the data that confirmed the presence of water.

From New York Times

Roscosmos plans to follow Luna-25 with a lunar orbiter, called Luna-26, and then two more landing missions: Luna-27, which will send a drilling rig to the lunar surface; and Luna-28, a sample-collection mission that aims to return material from the moon's polar regions to Earth.

From Scientific American