Mission record
Surveyor 1
Also known as Surveyor I, Surveyor-A, Surveyor1
NASA · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Success
The first spacecraft launched in the Surveyor program and the first soft landing on the Moon by the United States, demonstrating the technology needed to land and operate on the lunar surface.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas-Centaur
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Landing
Surveyor 1 landed in Oceanus Procellarum (reported telemetry event time converted from UT1 to UTC)
Moon
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Surveyor 1 · Lander
Destinations: Moon
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Surveyor 1: Separate post-fit coasts to terminal braking and an anchored lunar surface interval · May 30, 1966 to July 13, 1966
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 6, 2026
- Surveyor 1 - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- LROC Science Operations Team: Coordinates of Lunar Anthropogenic Targets (28 July 2016) — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Surveyor Project Final Report, Part I: Project Description and Performance, Volume I (JPL TR 32-1265) — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Surveyor Project Final Report, Part I Volume II: Flight Spacecraft and Mechanisms — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Surveyor 1 Mission Report Part I: Mission Description and Performance (JPL TR32-1023, 1966-08-31) — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- JPL Technical Report 32-223: General Trajectory Program for the IBM 7090 Computer — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- IERS Earth Orientation Parameters 14 C04 daily series, 1966 — OTHEREphemeris · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context