Ranger 5 (P-36), NASA JPL’s third Block II lunar impactor/semi-soft lander launched on an Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12; after injection the spacecraft lost power, batteries died in under nine hours, and it missed the Moon by ~725 km.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 351 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 1962, 16:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-055
- Launches in 1962
- 62nd of 81
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