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SURVEYOR 2
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Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon. After launch on September 20, 1966, a mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, September 22.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 20, 1966 at 12:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,004 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-084A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2425
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 23, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 23, 1966
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed