Surveyor Mass Model

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 11 Dec 1964, 02:25 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas Centaur (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Surveyor-Model was a dummy mass onbaord of Centaur AC-4, launched on 11 December 1964, which was to test the closed loop Honeywell guidance system and perform the first restart of cryogenic RL10A-3 engines in space.