Editing Surveyor program (section)

== Surveyor mission list ==
[[File:Surveyor-Model 1 (NASA).jpg|thumb|Surveyor-Model 1: A 952 kg mass representative for the Surveyor lunar probe. The cylindrical mass was permanently connected to the Centaur upper stage. ]]
[[File:Surveyor-SD 2.jpg|thumb|Surveyor-SD 2. Simulated Surveyor payload with the same dynamic properties as the real probe.]]
Surveyor-Model were generic mass simulators,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Surveyor Model 1 - NASA Science |url=https://science.nasa.gov/mission/surveyor-model-1/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=science.nasa.gov |date=December 27, 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Surveyor-Model |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/surveyor-model.htm |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref> while Surveyor SD had the same structure as the real Surveyor landers with all equipment replaced by dummy weights.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Surveyor-SD |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/surveyor-sd.htm |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref> These served to test [[Atlas-Centaur]] launch vehicle performance, and were not intended to reach the Moon.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> 

Of the seven Surveyor missions, five were successful. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Mission
! Launch
!Rocket
! Arrived at Moon
! Disposition
|-
|Surveyor-Model 1
|December 11, 1964
|[[Atlas-Centaur#Fourth flight|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-C AC-4]]
| -
|165 × 178 km Earth orbit
|-
|Surveyor SD-1
|March 02, 1965
|[[Atlas-Centaur#Fifth flight|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-C AC-5]]
| -
|destroyed on launch
|-
|Surveyor SD-2
|August 11, 1965
|[[Atlas-Centaur#Later flights|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-6]]
| -
|166 × 815085 km Earth orbit
|-
|Surveyor-Model 2 
|April 08, 1966
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-8
| -
|175 × 343 km Earth orbit
|-
| [[Surveyor 1]]
| May 30, 1966
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-10
| June 2, 1966
| landed on [[Oceanus Procellarum]]
|-
| [[Surveyor 2]] 
| September 20, 1966
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-7
| September 23, 1966
| crashed near [[Copernicus (lunar crater)|Copernicus crater]]
|-
|Surveyor-Model 3
|October 26,1966
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-9
| -
|165 × 470040 km Earth orbit
|-
| [[Surveyor 3]]
| April 17, 1967
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-12
| April 20, 1967
| landed on [[Oceanus Procellarum]]
|-
| [[Surveyor 4]]
| July 14, 1967
|Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D AC-11
| July 17, 1967
| crashed on [[Sinus Medii]]
|-
| [[Surveyor 5]]
| September 8, 1967
|[[Atlas SLV-3#SLV-3C|Atlas-SLV3C Centaur-D]] AC-13
| September 11, 1967
| landed on [[Mare Tranquillitatis]]
|-
| [[Surveyor 6]]
| November 7, 1967
|Atlas-SLV3C Centaur-D AC-14
| November 10, 1967
| landed on [[Sinus Medii]]
|-
| [[Surveyor 7]]
| January 7, 1968
|Atlas-SLV3C Centaur-D AC-15
| January 10, 1968
| landed near [[Tycho (lunar crater)|Tycho crater]]
|}