Planetary Science
SURVEYOR 6
DecayedPlanetary ScienceLunar
Surveyor 6 is the sixth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program that reached the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 6 landed on the Sinus Medii. A total of 30,027 images were transmitted to Earth.
Read more on Wikipedia →Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- November 7, 1967 at 07:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-112A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3031
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 10, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 10, 1967
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed