Atlas Centaur D | Surveyor 2
Launch Successful
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Sept. 20, 1966, 12:32 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Sept. 20, 1966, 12:32 p.m. - Sept. 20, 1966, 12:32 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Sept. 20, 1966, 12:32 p.m. - Sept. 20, 1966, 12:32 p.m.
Lunar probe lost due to the failure of a vernier engine during a midcourse correction maneuver which sent the spacecraft in an unrecoverable tumble.
The Atlas-Centaur was a US expendable launch vehicle derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile. Launches were conducted from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.
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