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SURVEYOR 7
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Surveyor 7 was sent to the Moon in 1968 on a scientific and photographic mission as the seventh and last lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program. With two previous unsuccessful missions in the Surveyor series, and with Surveyor 7's landing success, Surveyor 7 became the fifth and final spacecraft in the series to achieve a lunar soft landing. A total of 21,091 pictures were transmitted from Surveyor 7 back to Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 7, 1968 at 06:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 7
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,038 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3091
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 10, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 10, 1968
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed