Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Lunar photos. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1970-088; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 20 October 1970, 19:55:39 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Proton-K/D
- Orbit
- Cislunar or translunar orbit
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Military Proton-K rocket launched the Zond 8 mission on Tuesday, October 20, 1970 at 7:55 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Military
- Vehicle
- Proton-K
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1970-088
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Oct 20, 1970, 19:55 UTC
- Target T-0
- Not published
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 20 1970
- Pad and location
- LC-81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 27 October 1970
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Zond 8
Lunar photos.
- GCAT ID
- S04591
- 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 8.
Verification
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