Ranger 5 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
Ranger 5 was NASA’s third Block 2 attempt to impact the Moon. A power-transfer failure depleted its batteries, it missed the Moon by about 450 miles in 1962 and entered heliocentric orbit, but it returned about four hours of gamma-ray data.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Ranger 5Ranger VRanger 5 lunar probeRanger 5 spacecraft
- Family Name
- Ranger 5
- Full Name
- Ranger 5 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeimpactorresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Ranger 5 was NASA’s third Block 2 attempt to impact the Moon. A power-transfer failure depleted its batteries, it missed the Moon by about 450 miles in 1962 and entered heliocentric orbit, but it returned about four hours of gamma-ray data.
- First Flight Year
- 1,962
- Last Flight Year
- 1,962
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ranger-5/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:10:45 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:10:45 UTC