Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Circumlunar flight. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1968-101; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 10 November 1968, 19:11:31 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Proton-K/D
- Orbit
- Cislunar or translunar orbit
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 17 November 1968
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Zond 6
Circumlunar flight.
- GCAT ID
- S03535
- Manufacturer
- Tsentral'niy KB Ekspermental'novo Mashinostroeniya
- Launch mass
- 2,800 kg
- Propulsion
- KTDU-53
- Dimensions
- 1.8 m long · 2 m diameter · 1.8 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Zond 6.
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