rgra/06_v_bw_o_n (64-Ranger A-9)
“Model of the Ranger A spacecraft—The objective of the Ranger A mission is to obtain photographs of the lunar surface. Six TV vidicon cameras, two wide-angle and four narrow-angle, will begin taking photographs ten minutes prior to impact and will send the video signals to tracking stations for recording on magnetic tape and reconversion to image on film. The first pictures will be taken 1,000 miles from the lunar surface. The last photographs could be taken as close as one-third of a mile from the Moon Ideally some 3,000 photographs could be reproduced by the six cameras.”
“Ranger A” was the first improved Block III Ranger, aka Ranger 6. Per the Space Review website/Andrew J. LePage, at:
rgra/06_v_bw_o_n (64-Ranger A-9)
“Model of the Ranger A spacecraft—The objective of the Ranger A mission is to obtain photographs of the lunar surface. Six TV vidicon cameras, two wide-angle and four narrow-angle, will begin taking photographs ten minutes prior to impact and will send the video signals to tracking stations for recording on magnetic tape and reconversion to image on film. The first pictures will be taken 1,000 miles from the lunar surface. The last photographs could be taken as close as one-third of a mile from the Moon Ideally some 3,000 photographs could be reproduced by the six cameras.”
“Ranger A” was the first improved Block III Ranger, aka Ranger 6. Per the Space Review website/Andrew J. LePage, at: