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.
Surveyor -- First lunar laboratory
Space/Aeronautics
Space/Aeronautics ; 40 , n 1
1963
8 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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