NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Zond 6

Launch Time
Sun Nov 10, 1968 19:11 UTC

Rocket

Proton-K/Block D
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 8,840 kN
Payload to LEO: 18,900 kg
Payload to GTO: 9,000 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 56.14 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.9 m
Fairing Height: 8.9 m

Mission Details

Zond 6

Zond-6's scientific payload consists of a radiation detector, a micrometeorite detector and a biological container. This is the first time that a machine returning from the Moon achieves a controlled return to the atmosphere.

L1 was a Soviet spacecraft launched on Proton, designed in parallel of 7K-L1, which flew on the N-1 launcher. It was conceived to carry out crewed flybys of the Moon, like Apollo 8. This spacecraft sent the first living beings to fly over the Moon, turtles, on board Zond 5. The work made on this spacecraft will be used for the improvement of the Soyuz spacecraft.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,375.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection

Location

Site 81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1968

109th orbital launch attempt

Proton-K

8th mission
4th mission of 1968
5th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission