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Ranger 4
Atlas Agena B · Lunar Exploration
1962Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Ranger 4 was a spacecraft designed to softly impact the lunar surface. Its solar panels were never extended and its sun and earth acquisition system was not initiated due to a failure of a timer in its central computer. It impacted the far side of the Moon on April 26 after 64 hours of flight.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas Agena B
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Pad
- Launch Complex 12
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2