Ranger 1 (P-32), a NASA Block I deep-space technology demonstrator for the Ranger lunar program, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 on 23 August 1961. Agena failed to restart, stranding it in low Earth orbit instead of the planned high elliptical orbit; it decayed on 30 August.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Payload to orbit
- 306 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 1961, 10:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-021
- Launches in 1961
- 29th of 50
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