Payload
SPUTNIK 25
DecayedPayloadLEO
Luna E-6 No.2, also identified as No.1, and sometimes known in the West as Sputnik 25, was a Soviet spacecraft which launched in 1963, but was placed into a useless orbit due to a problem with the upper stage of the rocket that launched it. It was a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) Luna Ye-6 spacecraft, the first of twelve to be launched. It was intended to be the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon, a goal which would eventually be accomplished by the final Ye-6 spacecraft, Luna 9.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 4, 1963 at 08:49 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-4c
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 152 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 64.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.53 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 521
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 5, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 5, 1963
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed