Ranger 3 (P-34), a NASA Block II lunar impactor intended to hard-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral lofted it, but Agena guidance errors sent it past the Moon by about 36,800 km into heliocentric orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 336 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 26 January 1962, 20:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-001
- Launches in 1962
- 3rd of 81
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