Surveyor lunar lander
Surveyor was Hughes Aircraft Company's robotic lunar-lander design for NASA and JPL. Seven flight spacecraft launched from 1966 to 1968; five achieved soft landings, returned more than 87,000 surface images, tested lunar-soil mechanics and composition, and reduced key engineering uncertainty before Apollo.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Surveyor spacecraftSurveyor lunar soft-landing spacecraftSurveyor lunar station
- Family Name
- Surveyor
- Full Name
- Surveyor lunar lander
- Roles
- lander
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Surveyor was Hughes Aircraft Company's robotic lunar-lander design for NASA and JPL. Seven flight spacecraft launched from 1966 to 1968; five achieved soft landings, returned more than 87,000 surface images, tested lunar-soil mechanics and composition, and reduced key engineering uncertainty before Apollo.
- Dimensions
- Height M
- 3
- First Flight Year
- 1,966
- Last Flight Year
- 1,968
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- expendable
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 15:47:49 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 15:47:49 UTC