List of NASA cameras on spacecraft
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NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.
Apollo Program
Space Shuttle program
- Space Shuttle booster cameras.[1]
- Space Shuttle External Tank camera
- Columbia
- Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing experiment
Lunar missions
- Pioneer program, 1958-1960
- Lunar Orbiter program, Lunar Orbiter 1-5, 1966-1967
The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth.
- Clementine, 1994
- Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
- One visible, two near infrared, and two mid-infrared cameras
- Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, 2011
Other missions
References
- ^ Madrigal, Alexis (14 July 2011). "NASA's Rocket Booster Cam Video". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
