Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar orbiter, Technology demonstration
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1968-027A
- Satcat number span no
- 03178
- Mission duration
- 75 days
- Spacecraft type
- E-6LS
- Manufacturer
- GSMZ Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1,640 kilograms (3,620 lb)
- Launch date
- 7 April 1968, 10:09:32 ( 1968-04-07UTC10:09:32Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 8K78M
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Last contact
- 24 June 1968 ( 1968-06-25 )
- Reference system
- Selenocentric
- Periselene altitude
- 1,894 kilometres (1,177 mi)
- Aposelene altitude
- 2,607 kilometres (1,620 mi)
- Inclination
- 42 degrees
- Period
- 160 minutes
- Epoch
- 9 April 1968, 19:00:00 UTC
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Series
- Luna programme
- Followed by
- Luna 15
- Follows
- Luna 13
- Mass
- 1640
- Orbital period
- 240
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1968-04-07
- space launch vehicle
- Molniya-M
- start point
- Gagarin's Start
- service retirement
- 1968-00-00
- orbital inclination
- 42
- apoapsis
- 270
- periapsis
- 160
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Encyclopedic overview
Luna 14 (E-6LS series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program run by the Soviet Union. It was also called Lunik 14.
Overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luna 14” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.