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DEARMOON PROJECT

Target: Moon  
State: Planned

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Mission

Kind: Lunar orbiter

State: Partial failure

Place: Moon

Operator: GSMZ Lavochkin

Instruments: Imaging system for lunar photographyGamma-ray spectrometerMagnetometerRadiation detectorsInfrared radiometerMeteoroid detectorR-1 transmission experiment

Date

Start:

Duration: 38 days

Mission Ending

Last Contact: 1 October 1966

Rocket

Rocket: Molniya-M 8K78M

Kind: GSMZ Lavochkin

Manufacturer: GSMZ Lavochkin

Mass: 1640 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 11 (E-6LF series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. It was also called Lunik 11. Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on 27 August 1966.

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