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  NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Surveyor 1 carried two television cameras - one mounted on the bottom of the frame for approach photography, which was not used, and the survey television camera.
Surveyor 1 was launched on 30 May 1966 at 14:41:00 UT (9:41 EST) on an Atlas/Centaur from Complex 36-A of the Eastern Test Range directly into a lunar impact trajectory.
Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface on 2 June 1966 at 6:17:36 UT (1:17:36 a.m.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1966-045A   (1001 words)

  
 NASM Space Artifacts: Surveyor
Surveyor 1 landed on 2 June, 1966 within 16 kilometers (10 miles) of its midcourse aiming point just north of Flamsteed Crater on the Moons "Ocean of Storms." More than 10,000 high-quality photographs of the lunar surface were returned to Earth during the spacecraft's first lunar day.
Surveyor 3 was similar to Surveyor 1, except that it had a "scoop and claw" device with which tests of the bearing strength and consistency of the lunar surface and surface material could be tested.
Finally, Surveyor 7 was equipped with both the scoop and claw device and the alpha back-scattering instrument, with the former used to reposition the latter and prepare the surface for different measurements.
www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/artifacts/SS-surveyor.htm   (536 words)

  
 Surveyor
Surveyors 1, 3, 5 and 6 landed on maria near the Moon's equator.
The successful missions and landing dates are: Surveyor 1 on June 2, 1966; Surveyor 3 on April 19, 1967; Surveyor 5 on September 10, 1967; Surveyor 6 on November 9, 1967; and Surveyor 7 on January 9, 1968.
Surveyor 3 landed on the moon on April 20, 1967 at 2.94° south latitude, 23.34° west longitude in the southeastern part of Oceanus Procellarum.
www.solarviews.com /portug/surveyor.htm   (482 words)

  
 County Surveyor - Departments - Sauk County
Within 60 days after completing any survey, the county surveyor shall make a true and correct copy of the foregoing record, in record books or on reproducible papers to be furnished by the county and kept in files in the office of the county surveyor to be provided by the county.
In a county with a population of 500,000 or more where there is no county surveyor, a copy of the record shall also be filed in the office of the regional planning commission which acts in the capacity of county surveyor for the county.
In addition to the regular fees of land surveyors that are received from the parties employing the county surveyor, the county surveyor may receive a salary from the county.
www.co.sauk.wi.us /dept/surveyor/index.html   (418 words)

  
 Salt Lake County Surveyor: Area Reference Plats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
You may employ a land surveyor only once or twice in a lifetime and not be aware of the steps necessary to select a land surveyor.
The licensed surveyor is a highly specialized individual, whose education, experience, and competence have been formally examined and licensed by the state of Utah.
Surveyors do not prove ownership, but make a professional judgement of what the records and facts indicate your ownership to be.
www.surveyor.slco.org /html/surveyingfaqs.html   (879 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Exploration - Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was the first US mission to soft-land on the Moon, after the USSR's Luna 3 achieved this task earlier in 1966.
Surveyor 1 was launched at Cape Canaveral in the United States.
Surveyor 1 spent the night on the Moon and was successfully reactivated the next day, on July 6.
bbc.co.uk /science/space/exploration/missiontimeline/surveyor1.shtml   (333 words)

  
 Indiana Code 14-26-8
(1) The president of the board of commissioners of each county affected shall submit in writing to the clerk of the court in which the petition is filed the name of a member of the board of commissioners of the county who will be a viewer.
(1) the petition is a joint petition between the owners of land abutting or within one-fourth (1/4) mile of the shoreline or water line of the lake and the county or the department; or
The county surveyor shall keep in the surveyor's office copies of the plans and specifications, which shall be open for the inspection of any landowner interested or any contractor who may be a prospective bidder on the work.
www.in.gov /legislative/ic/code/title14/ar26/ch8.html   (6297 words)

  
 Surveyor 1 - Abstract
Surveyor 1 was launched on Mission A from Cape Kennedy, Florida at 14:41:00.990 GMT on May 30, 1966, and soft landed on the moon at 06:17:37 GMT on June 2, 1966.
At the termination of Surveyor 1 operations at the close of the second lunar day, on July 14, 1966, over 100,000 commands had been sent to the spacecraft and over 11,000 pictures had been returned.
Surveyor 1 mission design constraints were the Centaur/Surveyor separation distance what must be at least 336 km by 5 hr after injection to eliminate possible Centaur interference during Canopus acquisition.
www.tsgc.utexas.edu /archive/characterizations/surveyor.html   (1038 words)

  
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 30, 1966, settling down on the Moon at a site called Flamsteed in Oceanus Procellarum on June 2.
Surveyor 3, 5, 6 and 7 repeated the initial triumph of Surveyor 1 in different sites and successively added a robot arm with scoop and a chemical element analyzer to the scientific toolkit.
Surveyor 3 was launched April 17, 1967, and operated on the Moon until May 4, 1967.
www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/past/surveyor.html   (375 words)

  
 Title 17. Counties, Chapter 23. County Surveyor
(1) (a) The office of the county surveyor in each county shall be filled by election and, except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), the county surveyor shall be a licensed professional land surveyor in the state.
The county surveyor shall have a seal, to be furnished by the county, the impression of which shall contain the following words: "State of Utah, County Surveyor," together with the name of the county in which the same is to be used.
(3) The county surveyor having jurisdiction of the map or narrative shall certify that the affidavit of correction has been examined and that the changes shown on the map or narrative are changes permitted under this section.
www.code-co.com /utah/code/04/17-23.htm   (3054 words)

  
 Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors
(j) "Professional surveyor" means a person who, by reason of knowledge of law, mathematics, physical sciences, and techniques of measuring acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of professional surveying.
(4) The board of professional surveyors consists of 5 professional surveyors, 1 professional engineer who is a member of the board of professional engineers, and 1 architect who is a member of the board of architects.
The term of the member who is a licensed professional surveyor shall coincide with that member's term on the board of professional surveyors.
www.misocprofsurveyors.org /edu_licensing.htm   (1530 words)

  
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Surveyor would map the area around the Shackleton Crater rim and then overfly some of the crater itself, landing in a cold, dark region within the crater.
Surveyor could be a low cost piggyback mission on LRO or an RLEP2 comsat deployment and return valuable data by 2009 in time to inform final engineering on the RLEP2 surface mobility system.
Surveyor could also be a first flight test of the basic LSAM lander framework and motor and reduce risk for the heavier and costlier RLEP2 lander.
www.digitalspace.com /projects/dss/surveyor/index.html   (271 words)

  
 Boeing: History -- Products - Hughes Surveyor Lunar Spacecraft
Built for NASA by Hughes Aircraft Co., the Surveyors were robotic spacecraft used as pathfinders for subsequent landings of humans on the moon.
Surveyor 1 was launched to the moon four months after Luna 9 on a direct-ascent trajectory.
Surveyor 7 was sent to the rim of the lunar crater Tycho and transmitted more that 21,000 pictures, including images of two laser beams from stations on Earth.
www.boeing.com /history/boeing/surveyor.html   (333 words)

  
 Lunar Exploration Vehicles - Exhibition Home Page
Unlike Ranger, which crashed on the Moon's surface, Surveyor made a soft-landing on the Moon and operated for extended periods of time directly on the Moon's surface.
NASA launched Surveyor 1 from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 1966.
Surveyor 3, equipped with a scoop and claw device, tested the cohesiveness of the lunar surface and placed samples in front of the spacecraft's camera; Surveyor 5 carried an instrument that could analyze the surface material chemically.
www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/gal112/gal112.html   (880 words)

  
 LAND SURVEY STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 2004
14 (1) The elected members of the board are to be elected, by votes to be counted at the annual general meeting, for a term specified in the bylaws in the manner provided by this Act and the bylaws.
(1) Before becoming a land surveyor, a candidate for admission as a land surveyor must take and sign before a member of the board an oath or affirmation in the form established by bylaw.
(1) The board has full power to inquire into a suspected breach of a bylaw or suspected unprofessional conduct by a member or former member, and, without any complaint having been made, may summon the member or former member to appear before the board for examination as to the matters specified in the summons.
www.quickscribe.bc.ca /secure/bills/2004_bill017.html   (4686 words)

  
 SDSPLS Recommended Guidelines
the survey, Land Surveyors can be expected to exercise reasonable care during record research, but cannot be held liable for errors or omissions caused by defects in the chain of title for the property being surveyed, or that of the adjoiners.
It is the Land Surveyor’s responsibility to determine whether he or she is properly qualified, or has the proper knowledge, experience, personnel, equipment and resources available to undertake the contemplated project.
The surveyor shall select the proper equipment and method necessary to achieve either the required relative position tolerance, required radial survey measurement tolerance or required traverse closure.
www.enetis.net /~surveyor/guidelines.htm   (2123 words)

  
 Surveyor
Surveyor 1 soft landed on the moon in the Ocean of Storms and began transmitting the first of more than 11,150 clear, detailed television pictures to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Facility, Goldstone, Calif. The landing sequence began 3,200 kilometers above the moon with the spacecraft traveling at a speed of 9,700 kilometers per hour.
Surveyor II was launched from Cape Kennedy at 8:32 a.m.
Recovered parts of Surveyor 3 which seemed to show that Earth bacteria could survive for that period in space and be revived.
www.astronautix.com /craft/surveyor.htm   (2191 words)

  
 Surveyor 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surveyor 1 was the first lunar lander in the American Surveyor program that explored the Moon.
The Surveyor spacecraft was designed to attain the engineering objectives of the Surveyor program, which included the first lunar soft landing.
Over 10,000 pictures were taken by the Surveyor 1 camera before lunar sunset on June 14, 1966.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surveyor_1   (714 words)

  
 Spaceflight :Robotic U.S. Missions to the Moon
Surveyor 7 mosaic of the rim area of Tycho from the highland region north of the crater on the Moon.
The implementation of projects such as Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, and Surveyor was critical to the eventual success of the Apollo program, NASA's major program to land astronauts on the surface of the Moon before the end of the 1960s.
Surveyor 4 was a failure, but Surveyors 5, 6, and 7 successfully landed on the Moon in 1967 and 1968, returning vast amounts of photographs and data on the Moon that were critical to designing experiments for the Apollo missions.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/US_moon/SP28.htm   (1798 words)

  
 NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Target: Moon: Past: Surveyor
The Surveyors also took close-up images of the lunar surface and made other observations that helped pinpoint locations that would be safe for Apollo landings.
Although Russia's Luna 2 is credited as the first spacecraft to touch down on another celestial body (it impacted the Moon in 1959), Surveyor 1 was the first spacecraft to make a survivable 'soft' landing beyond Earth.
All the Surveyor spacecraft had television cameras and some had other tools and instruments to study lunar soil consistency and composition.
solarsystem.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Moon&MCode=Surveyor   (235 words)

  
 Surveyor Program
The Surveyor program consisted of seven unmanned lunar missions that were launched between May 1966 and January 1968.
Surveyor 7, the last in the series, landed in the highland region close to Tycho Crater, a site chosen primarily for its scientific interest.
Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 had a magnet attached to one of the spacecraft footpads to determine magnetic properties and composition of the soil.
www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/surveyor/surveyor.html   (806 words)

  
 Asbestos report investigation survey surveyor building surveyors engineer home
In most cases the Surveyor will not take any samples on the initial visit unless the building is relatively small and the possible presence of asbestos is only limited to one or two areas.
Regarding time scales for stage 1, the target time for the surveyor to perform the initial survey is normally 3 or 4 working days (from placement or order and payment).
Should samples have been taken during stage 1, a further 14 days will be required before the results of the laboratory analysis will be available.
www.surveyorsreports.co.uk /asbestos_surveyor_survey.htm   (899 words)

  
 SharpLogic Software - Case Studies - Surveyor SRV-1 For Microsoft Robotics Studio MINDSTORMS
Founded in 1998, Surveyor Corporation is the leading developer of foundation technologies for visual connectivity.
For Surveyor, that vision is to bring vision itself to the world of robotics through its SRV-1 robot.
While the protocol is robust enough to enable developers to build basic applications, Surveyor recognized the opportunity to drive their robot’s success via integration with the scripting, processing and simulation capabilities of Microsoft Robotics Studio, the next generation robotics platform from Microsoft.
www.sharplogic.com /case/surveyor.htm   (385 words)

  
 Surveyor program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Surveyor Program consisted of unmanned spaceflights to the Moon, with soft landings, without returning (although Surveyor 6 became the first spacecraft to lift off the moon).
Several Surveyor spacecraft had robotic shovels which were designed to test lunar soil mechanics.
Some of the Surveyors also had alpha scattering insturments and magnets, which helped determine the chemical composition of the soil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surveyor_program   (359 words)

  
 Surveyor 1 Mission
In addition to proving a variety of new equipment and spacecraft design and validating the technique for landing on the Moon, Surveyor 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to land softly on the Moon, returned a large quantity of scientific data during its first two days of operation on the lunar surface.
Surveyor 1 completed its primary mission on July 14, 1966, after transmitting, in addition to the television pictures, data on the bearing strength, temperatures, and radar reflectivity of the Moon.
All Surveyor landing sites, except for the last one, were selected primarily because they were being considered as Apollo landing sites.
www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/surveyor/Surveyor1.html   (192 words)

  
 Gemini 4
This hold, lasting 1 hour 16 minutes was the only delay for Gemini IV.
Although MSC's Building 1 auditorium had been "designed to house all large events covered by the news and television services," its 800 seats fell short of the space that would be needed to accommodate the 1,100 requests for accreditation NASA had received.
Pyrotechnic shattered the illusion of quiet at stage 1 and, later, at stage 2 separation.
www.astronautix.com /flights/gemini4.htm   (7312 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Lunar Lost & Found: The Search for Old Spacecraft
He used it with Surveyor 1 and subsequent Surveyor craft that set down on the Moon between 1966 and 1968.
The Soviet machinery is sitting silent at the most northerly of all landings on the Moon to date, "and would be a vital part of understanding the Moon's exact rotation for geophysical purposes," Stooke said.
The arrays of 14 prisms on Lunokhods 1 and 2 were built by the French.
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/060327_mystery_monday.html   (1904 words)

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