Lunar Orbiter

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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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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