Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar lander
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1967-112A
- Satcat number span no
- 03031
- Mission duration
- 37 days (launch to last contact)
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft
- Launch mass
- 1,008.3 kilograms (2,223 lb)
- Landing mass
- 299.6 kilograms (661 lb) after landing
- Launch date
- November 7, 1967, 07:39:01 ( 1967-11-07UTC07:39:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D AC-14
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-36B
- Last contact
- December 14, 1967 ( 1967-12-15 ) ; last useful data November 24
- Landing date
- November 10, 1967, 01:01:06 UTC
- Return launch
- November 17, 1967, 10:32 UTC
- Landing site
- 0°28′27″N 1°25′39″W / 0.47430°N 1.4275°W / 0.47430; -1.4275
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
This spacecraft is the fourth of the Surveyor series to successfully achieve a soft landing on the Moon, obtain post landing television pictures, determine the abundance of the chemical elements in the lunar soil, obtain touchdown dynamics data, obtain thermal and radar reflectivity data, and conduct a Vernier engine erosion experiment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Surveyor 6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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