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LUNA 20
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Luna 20 was the second of three successful Soviet lunar sample return missions. It was flown as part of the Luna program as a robotic competitor to the six successful Apollo lunar sample return missions.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 14, 1972 at 03:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-20
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5835
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 25, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 25, 1972
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed