Wednesday, October 8, 1997

Luna 24

 1976-081A


The final E-8 class mission was E-8-5M No. 413, which carried out the third successful (and eleventh attempted) sample return flight under the name of Luna-24. It returned 0.17kg of samples. This was the first mission to use the improved Blok D-1 (11S824M) upper stage.


Luna-24 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Aug 9  1504:12 Launch by Proton  KB 
  T+2:03? Stage 2 burn 
  T+3:05? Fairing sep 
  T+5:27? Stage 3 burn 
 1514?  T+9:43? Stage 3 sep, suborb 
 1518?  T+14 min? SOZ burn 
  T+14 min? Blok D burn 
 1520?  T+16 min? Blok D MECO-1, EOI 
 1619?  T+1h15? Blok D MES-2 
 1622  Asc node 
 1625?  Blok D MECO-2, TLI 
 1625?  Blok D sep 
1976 Aug 13  2311  Lunar orbit insertion  119.3 108 x 122 x 119.4 
1976 Aug 16   TCM  114.7 14 x 119 x 120.5 
1976 Aug 17   TCM 
1976 Aug 18   SO tanks sep 
1976 Aug 18  0630  Retro 
 0636  Landed 12 45 N 62 12 E 
1976 Aug 18   Drilling 


1976-U01


L24VA 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Aug 19  0525  Launch to 2.7 km/s 
 1735? Leave lunar sphere 
1976 Aug 23  0220? VA rocket sep (range 50000 km?) 
 0540?  Reentry 
1976 Aug 23  0555  Landed 200 km SE of Surgut 

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