Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar lander
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1965-044A
- Satcat number span no
- 01393
- Mission duration
- 10 days
- Spacecraft type
- Ye-6
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 1,442 kilograms (3,179 lb)
- Launch date
- 8 June 1965, 07:41:00 ( 1965-06-08UTC07:41Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 8K78M
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Last contact
- Cosmic radiation measurement ended 18 June 1965
- Reference system
- Heliocentric
- Closest approach
- 11 June 1965
- Distance
- 160,000 kilometres (99,000 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Luna 6, or E-6 No.7 (Ye-6 series) was an uncrewed Soviet spacecraft which was intended to perform a landing on the Moon as part of the Luna program. Due to the failure of a mid-course correction manoeuvre, Luna 6 failed to land, instead flying past the Moon at a distance of 160,000 kilometres (99,000 mi).
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luna 6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.