List of NASA cameras on spacecraft
NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.
Apollo Program
- Apollo TV camera
- Hasselblad "Electric Camera" (modified 500 EL) with 70 mm film
- Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) with 16 mm film
- Nikon F with 35 mm film
- Mapping (Metric) Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (see Sherman Fairchild#Lunar photography)[1]
- Stellar Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 35 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17
- Panoramic Camera (61 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17
Skylab
Personal camera equipment:[2]
- Television camera
- 16 mm film video camera
- 35 mm film camera
- 70 mm film camera
Space Shuttle program
- Space Shuttle booster cameras.[3]
- Space Shuttle External Tank camera
- Columbia
- Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing experiment
- Nikon NASA F4
Lunar missions
- Pioneer program, 1958–1960
- Pioneer 1, television camera
- Pioneer 2, television camera
- Lunar Orbiter program, Lunar Orbiter 1–5, 1966–1967
The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth.
- Clementine, 1994
- Ultraviolet/Visible camera (UV/Vis)
- Near-Infrared camera (NIR)
- High-Resolution Camera (HIRES)
- Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
- One visible, two near infrared, and two mid-infrared cameras
- Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, 2011
Other missions
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