Failed · Launch or early mission failure
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The mission
Lunar probe, missed. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1963-008; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 2 April 1963, 08:16:37 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Molniya 8K78
- Orbit
- Cislunar or translunar orbit
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Space Program Molniya rocket launched the ALS mission on Tuesday, April 2, 1963 at 8:16 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Molniya
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1963-008
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Apr 2, 1963, 08:16 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Apr 02 1963
- Pad and location
- LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Failed
Mission failure · 15 April 1963
Launch or early mission failure
GCAT records the primary mission element as ended after a launch or early mission failure.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Luna 4
Lunar probe, missed.
- GCAT ID
- S00566
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1 im. S.P. Korolev
- Launch mass
- 1,240 kg
- Propulsion
- KTDU-5A
- Dimensions
- 2.6 m long · 1.5 m diameter · 2.6 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Luna 4.
Verification
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