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SURVEYOR 3
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Surveyor 3 is the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967 and the second to successfully land. It was the first mission to carry a surface-soil sampling-scoop.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 17, 1967 at 07:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 3
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-035A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2756
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 20, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 20, 1967
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed