1962 · United States Air Force
Ranger 5
successAtlas Agena B | Ranger 5
Lunar impactor which missed the Moon by 725 km due to an unknown malfunction preventing the spacecraft from receiving power after injection into lunar trajectory.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 18, 1962 at 04:59 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12
- Mission
- Ranger 5
- Mission type
- Lunar Exploration
- Orbit achieved
- Lunar Impactor