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Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the NASA Ranger program, a series of robotic spacecraft of the early and mid-1960s to obtain close-up images of the Moon's surface. It was launched on January 30, 1964 and was designed to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar terrain during the final minutes of flight until impacting the surface. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras—two wide-angle and four narrow-angle —to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality television pictures. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft. Due to a failure of the camera system, no images were returned.

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1964  Wikimedia, Wikidata
space probe, Atlas-Agena B, 

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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1964 Ranger 6

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rocket launch

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atmospheric entry

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Ranger 6

Jet Propulsion Laboratory : Granite Oil Slip Table ranger 6 (1963)

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Ranger 6		Commons
commons	image		Jet Propulsion Laboratory : Granite Oil Slip Table ranger 6 (1963)		Commons
commons	image		1964 71390L		Commons