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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.
