Ranger 2 (P-33), a NASA Block I engineering test of the lunar-probe bus intended for a highly elliptical Earth orbit. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 left it in low parking orbit after the Agena failed to restart; it reentered after about one day.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Payload to orbit
- 306 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 1961, 08:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-032
- Launches in 1961
- 44th of 50
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