Apollo 17

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Apollo 17 landing site Taurus–Littrow, Moon

Return flight of Apollo 17 from the Moon.

Apollo LM

Family:
Configuration:

The Apollo lunar module (LM) ascent stage contained the crew cabin with instrument panels and flight controls. It contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command and service module.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    2.832 m
  • Diameter
    4.29 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5.0 T
  • Thrust
    16.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Apollo LM
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Apollo LM Ascent Stage
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

LM Challenger


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 2
Destination: Apollo 17 CSM
Serial Number: LM-12

Flown on Apollo 17. Descent stage on lunar surface at Taurus-Littrow, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon

Apollo Lunar Module Details

Crew


Gene Cernan

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: March 14, 1934
Date of Death: Jan. 16, 2017

Harrison Schmitt

Lunar Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: July 3, 1935
Age: 91

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

(NGSS)

CEO: Kathy Warden Founded: 2015 Successes: 17 Failures: 0 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.

INFO WIKI

Taurus–Littrow, Moon

Apollo 17 landing site


Falcon 9
Success
22 hours, 46 minutes ago
O3b mPower 11-13
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Electron
Success
3 days, 14 hours ago
Happily Ever Faster (BlackSky Gen-3 5)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Note: Payload and customer identities were not publicly announced. 5th of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 1 hour ago
USSF-153
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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Long March 4B
Success
4 days, 8 hours ago
Yaogan 53-01 to 03/56-01 to 03
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

6 Chinese military “remote sensing” satellite of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 15-24
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Spectrum
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Onward and Upward
Orbital Launch Pad - Andøya Spaceport

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GSLV Mk II
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
GISAT-1A (EOS-05)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

GISAT-1A (GEO Imaging Satellite) is an Indian earth observing satellite operating from geostationary orbit to facilitate continuous observation of In…


Electron
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
Owl Around The World (StriX Launch 11)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
Starlink Group 15-23
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Pallas-1
Success
1 week, 6 days ago
Demo Flight
Pallas-1 Launch Pad - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 rocket, with a dummy payload on board.