{"id":671,"date":"2013-12-14T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/12\/14\/a_closer_look_at_the_lunar_orbiter_spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T17:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:15:06","slug":"a_closer_look_at_the_lunar_orbiter_spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6934.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>This is one of the engineering flight spare Lunar Orbiter spacecraft on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.  <\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6934.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/lunar-orbiter-01.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>This diagram shows the major subsystems of the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft.  Additional Photos below show the NASM exhibition from a variety of angles.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6939.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>This is the main high-gain antenna.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6939.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6947.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6947.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6948.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>The camera system is inside the large silvery container between the solar panels and the propulsion system. Imagine what could be used today to accomplish the same task.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6948.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6969.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>This is the face of the spacecraft (camera system) that would point at the Moon.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6969.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6978.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>These are the solar cells that powered the spacecraft<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6978.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMG_6975.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>Closeup of the solar cells.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ooIMG_6975.jpg\" Target = \"blank\">Larger image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the engineering flight spare Lunar Orbiter spacecraft on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Larger image This diagram shows the major subsystems of the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. Additional Photos below show the NASM exhibition from a variety of angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}