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Luna 13
Lunar lander capsule.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Lunar lander capsule. This reconstructed record groups 2 GCAT payload or flight elements under launch 1966-116; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 21 December 1966, 10:17:08 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-13 mission on Wednesday, December 21, 1966 at 10:17 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Molniya
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1966-116
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Dec 21, 1966, 10:17 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Dec 21 1966
- Pad and location
- LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 28 December 1966
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Luna 13
Lunar lander capsule.
- GCAT ID
- S02626
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1,196 kg
- Propulsion
- KTDU-5A
- Dimensions
- 2.7 m long · 0.6 m diameter · 2.7 m span
Luna-13
Lunar lander probe.
- GCAT ID
- A01104
- Manufacturer
- Tsentral'niy KB Ekspermental'novo Mashinostroeniya
- Launch mass
- 112 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.1 m long · 0.6 m diameter · 2 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Luna 13.
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