Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar impactor
- Operator
- NASA
- Harvard designation
- 1962 Mu 1
- Cospar id
- 1962-012A
- Mission duration
- 10 hours (operational) , 64 hours (to impact)
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 331.1 kg (730 lb)
- Dimensions
- 1.52 m × 2.51 m (5.0 ft × 8.2 ft)
- Power
- 135 W
- Launch date
- April 23, 1962, 20:50:00 ( 1962-04-23UTC20:50Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena-B
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-12
- Impact date
- April 26, 1962, 12:49:53 ( 1962-04-26UTC12:49:54Z ) UTC, Failed before impact
- Impact site
- 15°30′S 130°42′W / 15.5°S 130.7°W / -15.5; -130.7
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- 1964 71394L.jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1962-04-23
- time of object orbit decay
- 1962-04-26
- Commons category
- Ranger 4
- native label
- Ranger 4
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Ranger
Ranger 4 was a spacecraft of the Ranger program, launched in 1962. It was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft.
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