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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 ...
First image of the Moon returned by a Ranger mission (Ranger 7 in 1964) The Ranger program was a series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those ...
The Ranger program was a series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact.
Spacecraft Event Remarks 2 February: Ranger 6: Lunar impact: Impacted Mare Tranquillitatis at 09:24:32, failed to return images 14 July: Zond 1: Flyby of Venus: Closest approach: 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi), communications system failed before flyby 31 July: Ranger 7: Lunar impact: Impacted Mare Nubium at 13:25:48, returned 4,308 images
7 December 2018 – lander in progress First spacecraft to soft land on the far side of the Moon. 2018-103A Yutu-2: rover active Beresheet: SpaceIL: 22 February 2019 – 11 April 2019 lander failure First Israeli and privately funded lunar lander. Entered lunar orbit on 4 April, hard-landed on 11 April 2019. 2019-009B: Chandrayaan-2: ISRO
Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for Apollo missions and were used for scientific study. [ 2 ]
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid measuring 525 feet in diameter that is located roughly 7 million miles from Earth, at 7:14 p.m ...
The first two Block I spacecraft, Ranger 1 and Ranger 2, were launched on August 23 and November 18, 1961, not to the Moon, but in intended high Earth orbits to test the Atlas-Agena and spacecraft capabilities. However, the Agena malfunctioned on both flights and left the probes trapped in a useless low Earth orbit from which they soon decayed.