Failed · Failure
The second Surveyor soft-lander; a vernier engine failed to ignite during the midcourse maneuver, leaving the spacecraft tumbling uncontrollably, and the mission failed with an impact on the Moon.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas-Centaur
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Surveyor 2 · 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 2: Injection fit coast ending before failed midcourse maneuver · September 20, 1966 to September 21, 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 2 - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims · event 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 2 Mission Report Part I: Mission Description and Performance (JPL TR32-1086, 1967-04-01) — 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 · event 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