Luna E-1 No.3 (NASA designation Luna 1958C), the third Soviet Ye-1 lunar impactor attempt on a Vostok-L 8K72 from Baikonur. The core-stage hydrogen peroxide pump seized about 245 seconds after liftoff, the booster lost thrust and disintegrated, and the probe never reached trajectory.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 9 Vostok-L 8K72 flights
- Date and time
- 4 December 1958, 18:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-L 8K72
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1958
- 26th of 28