Lunar Orbiter program
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed Moon-orbiting missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surfac
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft
A flight-spare Lunar Orbiter Photographic Subsystem is on display at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y.
Lunar Orbiter camera (NASA)
A detail of an original image at the top, compared to a reprocessed version at the bottom created by LOIRP.
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project was a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon in 1966 and 1967; it was funded by N
Lunar Orbiter program
…being selected. Frames for sites such as the Apollo 12 landing site, the Marius Hills, and the Sulpicius Gallus rille have been released. In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to…
Earth taken from Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966. Image as originally shown to the public displays extensive flaws and striping.
Front half of LOIRP's facilities
Stacks of 2-inch tape reels inside McMoon's
One of the FR-900 tape drives