Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1966-094A
- Satcat number span no
- 02508
- Mission duration
- 89 days
- Spacecraft type
- E-6LF
- Manufacturer
- GSMZ Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1,640 kilograms (3,620 lb)
- Launch date
- October 22, 1966, 08:42:26 ( 1966-10-22UTC08:42:26Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 8K78M
- Launch site
- Baikonur 31/6
- Last contact
- January 19, 1967 ( 1967-01-20 )
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Semi major axis
- 2,404.5 kilometres (1,494.1 mi)
- Periselene altitude
- 1,871 kilometres (1,163 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 2,938 kilometres (1,826 mi)
- Inclination
- 10 degrees
- Period
- 205 minutes
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Wikidata facts
- Series
- Luna programme
- Followed by
- Luna 13
- Follows
- Luna 11
- Mass
- 1620
- Orbital period
- 325
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- Luna programme
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1966-10-22
- space launch vehicle
- Molniya-M
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31
- orbital inclination
- 36.6
- apoapsis
- 1742
- periapsis
- 103
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Encyclopedic overview
Luna 12 (E-6LF series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 12.
Overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luna 12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.