Mission record
Surveyor 5
Also known as Surveyor-E, Surveyor5, Surveyor V
NASA · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Success
The third Surveyor to land successfully and the first mission to obtain in-situ compositional data on the Moon, analyzing soil in Mare Tranquillitatis with an alpha-scattering instrument.
- Destinations
- Moon
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas-Centaur
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Surveyor 5 · Lander
Destinations: Moon
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through August 24, 2026
- Surveyor 5 - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context