Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon. It was launched on September 20, 1966, from Cape Kennedy, Florida aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. A mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, September 22.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 995.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection
Location
SLC-36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1966
94th orbital launch attempt
Atlas-Centaur
9th mission
3rd mission of 1966
4th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission