DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Radio astronomy
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Date
Start:
Duration: 4 years and 2 months (launch date to last contact)
Mission Ending
Last Contact: August 1977 (1977-09)
Rocket
Rocket: Delta 1913
Kind: NASA
Mass: 328 kilograms (723 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-17B
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Selenocentric
1º Orbit: Lunar
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Explorer 49 (also called Radio Astronomy Explorer-B (RAE-B)) was a 328-kilogram (723 lb) satellite launched on June 10, 1973, for long wave radio astronomy research. It had four 230-metre-long (750 ft) X-shaped antenna elements, which made it one of the largest spacecraft ever built.
