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LUNA 15
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Luna 15 was a robotic space mission of the Soviet Luna programme that was in lunar orbit at the same time as the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 13, 1969 at 02:54 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-15
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,700 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4036
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 21, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 21, 1969
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed