Payload
RANGER 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
Ranger 2 was a flight test of the Ranger spacecraft system of the NASA Ranger program designed for future lunar and interplanetary missions. Ranger 2 was designed to test various systems for future exploration and to conduct scientific observations of cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radiation, dust particles, and a possible hydrogen gas "tail" trailing the Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 18, 1961 at 08:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 33.34°
- Orbital period
- 87.68 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-032A
- NORAD catalog №
- 206
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 20, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 20, 1961
- Time in service
- 2 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed