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Mission
Kind: Lunar orbiter
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: GSMZ Lavochkin
Instruments: MagnetometerGamma-ray spectrometerFive gas-discharge countersTwo ion traps/charged particle trapPiezoelectric micrometeorite detectorInfrared detectorLow-energy x-ray photon counters
Date
Start:
Duration: 60 days
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 30 May 1966
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya-M 8K78M
Kind: GSMZ Lavochkin
Manufacturer: GSMZ Lavochkin
Mass: 1582 kg
Launch Site: Baikonur, Site 31/6
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Selenocentric
1º Orbit: Lunar
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Luna 10 (E-6S series) was a 1966 Soviet Luna program, robotic spacecraft mission, also called Lunik 10. It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon.
