DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar orbiter
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: GSMZ Lavochkin
Instruments: Imaging systemGamma-ray spectrometerRadio altimeterMeteoroid detectorsMagnetometerCosmic-ray detectorsRadiation detectors
Date
Start:
Duration: Between 371 and 388 days (launch to last contact)
Mission Ending
Deactivated: c. 20 October 1972 (1972-10-21)
Last Contact: 1 November 1972
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K/D
Kind: GSMZ Lavochkin
Manufacturer: GSMZ Lavochkin
Mass: 5,700 kilograms (12,600 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 81/24
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 19 (a.k.a. Lunik 19) (E-8-LS series), was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program. Luna 19 extended the systematic study of lunar gravitational fields and location of mascons (mass concentrations). It also studied the lunar radiation environment, the gamma-active lunar surface, and the solar wind. Photographic coverage via a television system was also obtained.
