Surveyor 6

  1967-112A

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Surveyor 6 was launched at 0739 on 1967 Nov 7 by Atlas Centaur from Kennedy on azimuth 83.0 deg. The probe made a two burn parking orbit ascent. It made a course correction at 0220 on Nov 8. Surveyor VI landed on the Moon at 0101:05 on Nov 10 at 0.47N 1.48W in Sinus Medii. (0.47N 1.48W comes from LO photo correlation, 0.44N 1.37W from tracking; final project report gave 0.51N 1.39W).

At 1032 on Nov 17 the vernier engines were reignited to make a 3m high hop, the first rocket launch from the surface of the Moon. 

Surveyor 6
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1967 Nov 7	0739:01	Launch by AC-14	CKAFS LC36B
	0741:34	Atlas BECO
	0741:37	Booster sep
	0724:19	Panels sep
	0724:48	Fairing sep
	0743:07	Atlas SECO
	0743:09	Atlas sep
	0743:18	Centaur MES-1
	0748:42	T+9:38 Centaur MECO-1,	87.72 159 x 169 x 30.0
	0801:34	Centaur MES-2
	0803:30	Centaur MECO-2	170 x 664642 x 29.0
	0803:47	SV legs deploy
			169 x 686276 x 29.01 (GD)
			167 x 684964 x 29.00 (JPL)
			169 x 684614 x 29.00 (TMX1844)
	0804:30	Centaur sep
	0808:29	Centaur retro	168 x 401708 x 28.98 (TMX1844)
1967 Nov 8	0220:02	TCM 10s 10.1m/s	371 x 644020 x 29.09
1967 Nov 10	0057:55	AMR mark
	0058:01	Verniers on 2.587 km/s
	0058:03	Radar sep	-1375 x -9838 x 10.82
	0058:03	Retro
	0058:42	Retro burnout V=157m/s?	-1737 x 18? x 10.8
	0058:52	Vernier high thrust
	0058:54	Retro sep
	0101:02	Vernier off at 4m
	0101:04	Landing
	1458?	Centaur flyby 27915 km
		Centaur orbit	169069 x 399952
1967 Nov 11	0322	RCS jet test
	0346	RCS jet test
1967 Nov 17	1032:05	Vernier hop, 3m alt, 2.5m range
	1032:07	2.5s burn complete
	1032:11	6.1s flight
1967 Nov 26	0935	Shut down for lunar night
1967 Dec 12	1641	Reactivated
1967 Dec 14	1914	End of tx