Surveyor 2
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Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar lander
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1966-084A
- Satcat number span no
- 02425
- Mission duration
- 45 hours 3 min. to last contact; 62 hours 46 min. to failed soft landing
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft
- Launch mass
- 995.2 kilograms (2,194 lb)
- Dry mass
- 292 kilograms (644 lb)
- Launch date
- September 20, 1966, 12:32:00 ( 1966-09-20UTC12:32Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D AC-7
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-36A
- Impact date
- September 23, 1966, 03:18:00 UTC
- Impact site
- 4°00′S 11°00′W / 04.0°S 11.0°W / -04.0; -11.0
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 3766
- Mass
- 292
- Image
- Surveyor mockup.jpg
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- Surveyor 2
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1966-09-20
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Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon. After launch on September 20, 1966, a mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, September 22.
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