Background and outline of Surveyor program which involves lander and orbiter configurations; launch vehicle will be Atlas-Centaur; Surveyor lander will be different from all earlier spacecraft, it needs fully self-contained landing system and will be controlled from JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF); operation and tracking of Surveyor; details of command and data handling for DSIF (deep-space instrumentation facility) stations involved at Goldstone, Calif, Woomera, Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa; outline of 5 command modes.


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    Title :

    Surveyor -- First lunar laboratory


    Additional title:

    Space/Aeronautics


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    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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