Luna E-8 #201 - rocket launch details

Launch time19 Feb 196906:48 UTC

failure

Serial number: 239-01

Payload fairing broke up T+51 seconds. First stage exploded after flying debris ruptured the propellant tanks. Spacecraft was to have deployed a Lunokhod rover

Mission
Rocket
Payloads

Rocket ProtonK/D 8K82K/11S824

launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Pad 81/24Kazakhstan

Payloads

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
Luna E-8 #201	Lunar lander	-	-

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Payloads

Rocket ProtonK/D 8K82K/11S824