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Clementine Mission Timeline Summary

03/24/92 - Clementine Design Begins.

01/25/94 - Spacecraft launched at Vandenburg Air Force Base.

02/03/94 - Departure from low Earth orbit following an eight day checkout period.

02/19/94 - Following two phasing loop orbits, Clementine injected into lunar orbit. Lunar orbit, shake down period begins.

02/26/94 - Start of systematic mapping for first cycle.

03/26/94 - First mapping cycle complete, start of second cycle.

04/21/94 - Second mapping cycle complete, begin special observations.

05/05/94 - Leave Lunar Orbit.

05/07/94 - Clementine satellite suffered on-board malfunction that prevents planned close fly-by of the near-Earth Asteroid Geographos.

08/31/94 - Planned Geographos Fly-by (not accomplished).

More Details on Clementine Mission Timeline Summary

  • List of Lunar-Orbit Mission Timeline containing partial list of parameters (Scheduled Events only). Table shows orbit number, orbit start time (UTC), orbit longitude at the equator, periapsis altitude, and scheduled events.

  • Full Lunar-Orbit Mission Timeline formatted as a Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheet file. You must download this file to disk. Do not attempt to view this document. Before selecting an EXCEL file, you must first set the "load to disk" option in your document viewer. Two versions of the spreadsheet are available: MS/EXCEL Version 5 (download version 5 [118K]), or MS/EXCEL Version 2.2 (download version 2.2 [125K]).