Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter enters lunar orbit
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, operated by NASA of United States, enters lunar orbit on 2009-06-23. Has been photographing the Moon since 2009, and located much of the hardware other missions left behind — including several of the sites in this record.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter · mission · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
LROC imaging of lunar surface hardware
Positions of Apollo descent stages and other landed hardware, derived from orbital imagery in the IAU Mean Earth/Polar Axis lunar frame. Cited here for the non-Apollo-11 sites and for LRO’s own operating record.
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University · Partly verified
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera imaging of landed and impacted hardware