Monday, April 6, 1998

Zond 7A

  1969-F05


The 11F92 7K-L1A (or L1S) No. 3 simplified L1-S spaceship was used as the test payload for the first launch of the mighty N-1 rocket. Planned orbit was 287 x 304 km x 50.6 deg. A fire in one first stage engine led to shutdown of all the engines at an altitude of 14 km. The escape rocket fired and safely returned the L-1S cabin to the ground. The plan was for Blok-G to fire for TLI, Blok-D to perform LOI and TEI, with a two day lunar orbital photography mission.


L1S No. 3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Feb 21  0917:55  Launch by N-1 (3L)  KB LC110 
 0919  Fire in stage 1 
 0919:03  Blok A engines shutdown 
 0919  SAS escape system fired 
 0919  N-1 (3L) destroyed 
 0922L-1S landed 

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