Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar impactor
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1964-041A
- Satcat number span no
- 00842
- Mission duration
- 2 days, 20 hours and 35 minutes
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 365.6 kg (806 lb)
- Dimensions
- 1.52 m × 2.51 m (5.0 ft × 8.2 ft)
- Power
- 200 W
- Launch date
- July 28, 1964, 16:50:07 ( 1964-07-28UTC16:50:07Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena-B (250D / AA9)
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral , LC-12
- Impact date
- July 31, 1964, 13:25:48.82 ( 1964-07-31UTC13:25:49Z ) UTC
- Impact site
- 10°38′02″S 20°40′38″W / 10.6340°S 20.6771°W / -10.6340; -20.6771 , (Between Mare Nubium and Oceanus Procellarum )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Part of
- Ranger program
- Followed by
- Ranger 8
- Follows
- Ranger 6
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Image
- GPN-2000-001979.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 12
- Commons category
- Ranger 7
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1964-07-28
- native label
- Ranger 7
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Encyclopedic overview
Ranger program
Ranger 7 was the first NASA space probe to successfully transmit close-up images of the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program. Launched on July 28, 1964, Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar-impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ranger 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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