Soviet Space Program

Ye-6LS 112

Molniya-M 2BL

FAILURE

Failure

Wednesday, February 7, 1968 · 10:43 UTC

Mission

/01

Luna Ye-6LS was series of lunar orbiters built to test tracking and communications networks for the Soviet crewed lunar program.

Mission Type

Lunar Exploration

Orbit

Lunar Orbit (LO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

/02

Rocket

Variant: 2BL

Launch Pad

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

45.920° N, 63.342° E

101

Pad Launches

205

Location Launches

293

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