of a mounted ranger

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• Ranger 2 — was a flight test of the Ranger spacecraft system of the NASA Ranger program designed for future lunar and interplanetary missions. Ranger 2 was designed to test various systems for future exploration and to conduct scientific observations of… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 6 — was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F,… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 3 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program that was launched to study the Moon on January 26, 1962. The space probe was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 4 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 5 — was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger — Ran ger (r[=a]n j[ e]r), n. 1. One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber. [1913 Webster] 2. That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] The tamis ranger. Holland. [1913 Webster] 3. A dog… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• ranger — (n.) late 14c., gamekeeper, agent noun from RANGE (Cf. range) (v.)). Attested from 1660s in sense of man (often mounted) who polices an area. Modern military sense of member of an elite U.S. combat unit is attested from 1942 (organized 1941) …   Etymology dictionary

• ranger — [rān′jər] n. [ME raunger, a forest officer: see RANGE] 1. one who ranges; a wanderer 2. a) any of a group of mounted troops for patrolling a region ☆ b) [often R ] any of a group of soldiers, trained for raiding and close combat 3 …   English World dictionary

• Ranger (ride) — A Ranger is a HUSS manufactured inverting pendulum ride, first manufactured in 1981. Many of the design elements were later used in the HUSS Rainbow, and the term Ranger has become synonymous with inverting pendulum rides. It was the first… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 8 — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Ranger 8 Organization = NASA Major Contractors = Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mission Type = Lunar Science Satellite Of = Moon Launch = February 17, 1965 at 17:05:00 UTC Launch Vehicle = Atlas Agena B Decay = Impacted on… …   Wikipedia

• Ranger 1 — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Ranger 1 Organization = NASA Major Contractors = Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mission Type = Lunar Science Satellite Of = Earth Launch = August 23, 1961 at 19:12 UTC Launch Vehicle = Atlas Agena B Decay = August 30, 1961… …   Wikipedia