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LUNA 8
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Luna 8, also known as Lunik 8, was a lunar space probe of the Luna program.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 3, 1965 at 10:46 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-8
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,552 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-099A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1810
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 6, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 6, 1965
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed