Ranger 6, a NASA/JPL Block III lunar impactor carrying six TV cameras for close-up Moon images. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 lofted it on 30 January 1964; it hit Mare Tranquillitatis on 2 February but a camera-power failure returned no images.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 381 kg
- Flight
- 25th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1964, 15:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1964-007
- Launches in 1964
- 7th of 100
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