Planetary Science
LUNA 17
DecayedPlanetary ScienceLunar
Luna 17 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.
Read more on Wikipedia →Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- November 10, 1970 at 02:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-17
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-095A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4691
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 17, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 17, 1970
- Time in service
- 7 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed