Atlas Centaur 9 (AC-9), a NASA Centaur development flight carrying Surveyor dynamic mass model SM-3/SD-4. Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D from Cape Canaveral LC-36B on 26 October 1966 successfully demonstrated Centaur restart after a long coast, clearing the path for operational Surveyor lunar landings.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 726 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1966, 11:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1966-095
- Launches in 1966
- 105th of 131
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