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Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar lander
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1966-006A
- Satcat number span no
- 01954
- Mission duration
- 6 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes
- Spacecraft type
- Ye-6
- Manufacturer
- GSMZ Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1583.7 kg
- Landing mass
- 99 kg
- Launch date
- 31 January 1966, 11:41:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 8K78M s/n 103-32
- Launch site
- Baikonur , Site 31/6
- Last contact
- 6 February 1966, 22:55 GMT
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee altitude
- 220 km
- Apogee altitude
- 500000 km
- Inclination
- 51.8°
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 1583.71
- Official website
- selena.sai.msu.ru/Home/Spacecrafts/Luna-9/Luna-9.htm
- Image
- Luna 9 Space Probe.jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1966-01-31
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1966-02-03
- Commons category
- Luna 9
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Article
Luna 9 (Луна-9), internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and return imagery from its surface.
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