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Luna 5

NSSDC ID: 1965-036A

Description

The Luna 5 automatic interplanetary station was designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing. The retrorocket system failed, and the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface at the Sea of Clouds.

Alternate Names

  • Lunik 5
  • 01366

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 1965-05-09
Launch Vehicle: Modified SS-6 (Sapwood) with 2nd Generation Upper Stage + Escape Stage
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), U.S.S.R
Mass: 1474.0 kg

Funding Agency

  • Unknown (U.S.S.R)

Disciplines

  • Planetary Science
  • Space Physics

Additional Information

Experiments on Luna 5

Data collections from Luna 5

Questions or comments about this spacecraft can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams.

Selected References

Lyubimov, G. P., Measurement of the intensity of cosmic radiation during the flights of automatic interplanetary stations Zond 1, Zond 2, Zond 3, Luna 5, Luna 6, NASA, ST-CR-IS-10655, Oct. 1967.

Lunik 5 and 6, TRW Space Log, TRW Systems, 5, No. 2, 55, Redondo Beach, Calif., 1965.

Shelton, W., Soviet space exploration - the first decade, Arthur Barker Ltd., Unnumbered, London, England, 1969.

Johnson, N. L., Handbook of soviet lunar and planetary exploration - volume 47 science and technology series, Amer. Astronau. Soc. Publ., 1979.

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