Surveyor SD-2, a NASA Surveyor lander dynamic-model boilerplate launched on the maiden Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D (AC-6) from Cape Canaveral LC-36B into a highly elliptical orbit to qualify Centaur for upcoming lunar soft-landing missions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 945 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 11 August 1965, 14:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1965-064
- Launches in 1965
- 72nd of 124
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