Lunar Surface Experiments Package Arrays and Status

Experiment	Principal Investigator	Apollo 11	Apollo 12	Apollo 14	Apollo 15	Apollo 16	Apollo 17
Array		EASEP	ALSEP A	ALSEP C	ALSEP A-2	ALSEP D	ALSEP E
Deploy Site Latitude		0.6735	-3.00942	-3.64398	26.13407	-8.97537	20.19209
Deploy Site Longitude		23.4730	-23.42458	-17.47748	-3.62981	15.49812	30.76492
Design Life (days)		14	365	365	365	365	730
Uplink Frequency (MHz)		2119.0	2119.0	2119.0	2119.0	2119.0	2119.0
Downlink Frequency (MHz)		2276.5	2278.5	2279.5	2278.0	2276.0	2275.5
Date Commanded On		21 Jul 1969	19 Nov 1969	05 Feb 1971	31 Jul 1971	21 Apr 1972	12 Dec 1972
Time Commanded On		04:40:39 GMT	14:21 GMT	17:23 GMT	18:37 GMT	19:38 GMT	02:53 GMT
Date Commanded Off		27 Aug 1969	30 Sep 1977	Failed Jan 1976	30 Sep 1977	30 Sep 1977	30 Sep 1977
Passive Seismic Experiment	Gary Latham, University of Texas	X	X	X	X	X
Laser Ranging Retroreflector	J. E. Faller, Wesleyan University	100 corner		100 corner	300 corner
Deploy Site Latitude		0.67337		-3.64421	26.13333
Deploy Site Longitude		23.47293		-17.47880	3.62837
Lunar Surface Magnetometer	Palmer Dyal, Ames Research Center Charles Sonett, University of Arizona		Commanded off 14 Jun 1974	X	Commanded off 14 Jun 1974
Solar Wind Composition (Exposure)	Conway W. Snyder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	1 hr 17 min	18 hr 42 min	21 hr 0 min	41 hr 8 min	45 hr 5 min
Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment	John Freeman, Rice University		X	X	X
Heat Flow Experiment	Mark Langseth, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University				X	X	X
Charged Particle Lunar Environment Experiment	D. Reasoner, Rice University			X
Cold Cathode Ion Gauge Experiment	Francis Johnson, University of Texas		X	X	X
Active Seismic Experiment	Robert Kovach, Stanford University			X		X
Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment	Robert Kovach, Stanford University						X
Lunar Surface Gravimeter	Joseph Weber, University of Maryland						X
Lunar Mass Spectrometer	John H. Hoffman, University of Texas						X
Lunar Ejecta Meteoroid Experiment	Otto Berg, Goddard Space Flight Center						X
Dust Detector	James Bates, Manned Spacecraft Center	X	X	X	X

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP): Five Years of Lunar Science and Still Going Strong, Bendix Aerospace. Coordinates based on IAU Mean Earth Polar Axis coordinate system, as described in Davies and Colvin, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 105, pages 20,227 - 20,280, 2000. Command dates and times and uplink/downlink frequencies provided by National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (all other missions). Apollo 11 central station no longer accepted commands as of 27 Aug 1969.

JSC-09423, p. 3-54.

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