Ranger 7, NASA/JPL’s first fully successful Ranger lunar impactor and the first probe to return close-up Moon images. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 lofted it on 28 July 1964; it returned 4,308 photos before impacting between Mare Nubium and Oceanus Procellarum on 31 July.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 365 kg
- Flight
- 26th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 1964, 16:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1964-041
- Launches in 1964
- 50th of 100
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