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Ranger 7 was the first NASA space probe to successfully transmit close-up images of the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program . Launched on July 28, 1964, Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar-impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface ...
Ranger 9 was a Lunar probe, launched in 1965 by NASA.It was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact.
Surveyor 3 on the Moon. The first image returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon. This is a list of robotic space probes that have flown by, impacted, orbited or landed on the Moon for the purpose of lunar exploration, as well as probes launched toward the Moon that failed to reach their target.
Ranger 4, launched 23 April 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed, Moon impact Ranger 5 , launched 18 October 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed, missed Moon Block 2 of the Ranger project launched three spacecraft to the Moon in 1962, carrying a TV camera, a radiation detector, and a seismometer in a separate capsule slowed by a rocket motor ...
NASA determined that the spacecraft may have exploded, otherwise it impacted the Moon. [55] 52: Explorer 35 (AIMP-E) Explorer 35 (AIMP-E) 19 July 1967: Delta E1: NASA: Orbiter: Success Magnetospheric probe, studying the Moon and interplanetary space. Deactivated on 27 June 1973. [56] Presumed to have impacted the Moon during the 1970s. [57] 53 ...
The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes.The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to fly by the Moon, and successfully sent one spacecraft to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.
Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the NASA Ranger program, a series of robotic spacecraft of the early and mid-1960s to obtain close-up images of the Moon's surface.It was launched on January 30, 1964 and was designed to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar terrain during the final minutes of flight until impacting the surface.
The camera returned 6315 pictures between April 20 and May 3, 1967, including views of the spacecraft itself, panoramic lunar surveys, views of the mechanical surface digger at work, and of an April 24 eclipse of the Sun by the Earth. [9] The Apollo 12 Lunar Module landed near Surveyor 3 on November 19, 1969.