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Atlas Agena B | Ranger 5

Ranger 5

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 18 Oct 1962, 04:59 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas Agena B (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Lunar Exploration

Orbit: Lunar Impactor

Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Lunar impactor which missed the Moon by 725 km due to an unknown malfunction preventing the spacecraft from receiving power after injection into lunar trajectory.