Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Lunar orbiter. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1966-094; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 22 October 1966, 08:42:26 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Molniya 8K78M
- Orbit
- Cislunar or translunar orbit
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Space Program Molniya rocket launched the Luna-12 mission on Saturday, October 22, 1966 at 8:42 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Molniya
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1966-094
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Oct 22, 1966, 08:42 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 22 1966
- Pad and location
- LC-31, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 19 January 1967
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Luna 12
Lunar orbiter.
- GCAT ID
- S02508
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1,308 kg
- Propulsion
- KTDU-5A
- Dimensions
- 4.5 m long · 2 m diameter · 4.5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Luna 12.
Verification
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