Key facts
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1970-095A
- Satcat number span no
- 04691
- Mission duration
- 308 days
- Manufacturer
- GSMZ Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 5,700 kg (12,600 lb)
- Launch date
- 14:44:01, 10 November 1970 (UTC) ( 1970-11-10T14:44:01Z )
- Rocket
- Proton 8K82K with Blok D upper stage
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Last contact
- 13:05, 14 September 1971 (UTC) ( 1971-09-14T13:05:00Z )
- Orbital insertion
- 15 November 1970
- Landing date
- 03:46:50, 17 November 1970
- Landing site
- 38°17′N 35°00′W / 38.28°N 35.0°W / 38.28; -35.0
- Spacecraft component
- Lunokhod 1
- Distance driven
- 10.54 km (6.55 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Lunokhod 1
- Series
- Luna programme
- Followed by
- Luna 18
- Follows
- Luna 16
- Image
- Luna and Lunokhod.png
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Proton-K
- Commons category
- Luna 17
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1970-11-10
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Encyclopedic overview
Luna programme
Luna 17 (Ye-8 series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 17. It deployed the first robotic rover onto the surface of the Moon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luna 17” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.