Surveyor 7

"Servier 7" - the seventh and the last automatic lunar station NASA , launched by the program " Surveyor ." It started on January 7, 1968 , and landed on January 10 of the same year, 25.6 km north of the Tycho crater . Surveyor 7 transmitted 21,091 images of the lunar surface to Earth.

Surveyor 7
Surveyor-7
Model "Surveyor"
Customer	NASA
Manufacturer	Hugs aircraft
Tasks	soft landing on the moon
Launch pad	Cape Canaveral
Carrier rocket	Atlas / Centaurus
Launch	January 7, 1968 06:30:00 UTC
Flight duration	65 hours
NSSDC ID	1968-001A
SCN	03091
Specifications
Weight	305.7 kg after landing
Landing on a celestial body	January 10, 1968 01:05:36 UTC
Landing coordinates

Surveyor-7 was the fifth spacecraft of the Surveyor series, which carried out a soft landing on the moon . The flight program included:

1. make a soft landing in an area sufficiently remote from the lunar seas to provide photographs of the surface and soil samples that are significantly different from those obtained by previous vehicles;
2. get a television image of the landing site;
3. determine the relative abundances of chemical elements and the content of magnetic substances in the lunar soil ;
4. to manipulate the lunar soil;
5. get information about the dynamics of landing;
6. obtain data on the reflectivity of the soil in the radio and infrared bands;
7. conduct experiments on laser communication.