Ranger 4
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ranger-4-216-2221799
title:
Ranger 4
text:
Ranger 4 was a spacecraft of the Ranger program, launched in 1962. It was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. An onboard computer failure caused failure of
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1962 American unmanned space flight intended to study the Moon
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_4
date created:
2002-09-08T20:38:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T23:00:52Z
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