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Lunar Rotation and Flyby from Clementine Data (with route map) (1995)

1995 · Short film · 1 min

Synopsis

Clementine was a joint project between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NASA. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos. Clementine was launched on 25 January 1994 at 16:34 UTC (12:34 PM EDT) from Vandenberg AFB aboard a Titan II G rocket. After two Earth flybys, lunar insertion was achieved on February 21.…

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Running time
1 minutes
Internet Archive item
SVS-79

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