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SURVEYOR 5
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Surveyor 5 is the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 8, 1967 at 07:57 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 5
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,006 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-084A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2937
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 11, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 11, 1967
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed