Thursday, May 15, 1997

Luna 13

  1966-116A


Following the successful missions of the lunar orbiter E-6S and E-6LF craft, a final E-6M, No. 205, was sent aloft as Luna-13, and repeated the landing achieved by Luna-9. The spacecraft was originally No. 14, developed by OKB-1.


Luna-13 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 Dec 21  1017  Launch by Molniya  KB 
 1022  Blok-A sep 
 1022  Blok-I burn 
 1026  Blok-I sep 
 1117? BOZ burn 
 1118? Blok-L burn 
 1122? Blok-L sep 
1966 Dec 22  1841  TCM 
1966 Dec 24  1759 Modules sep 
 1759  Retro burn 70 km 
 1800  DU sep 
 1801  Landed on Moon 18 52N 62 03 W  
 1805  Petals unfold 
 1806  Soil penetrator test 
1966 Dec 26   Additional imaging 
1966 Dec 28  
End of transmissions 

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