Ranger 9, NASA’s final Ranger Block 3 lunar hard-impact imaging probe. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 lofted it on 21 March 1965; after 64.5 hours it returned 5,814 photos of crater Alphonsus before impacting on 24 March.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 368 kg
- Flight
- 29th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 21 March 1965, 21:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1965-023
- Launches in 1965
- 27th of 124
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