Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunarsurface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...
... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...
... ESA/NASA Solar Probe . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory . ... Twelve instruments comprise the payload, producing a continuous stream of data at 40 kbs, except when the solar oscillations imager Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) is operated in high-bit-rate mode, producing 160 kbs. ... Magnetic tape stores data between telemetry contacts with the Experiment Operations Facility, located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ...