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LUNA 18
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Luna 18, part of the Ye-8-5 series, was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 2, 1971 at 01:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-18
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-073A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5448
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 11, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 11, 1971
- Time in service
- 9 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed