Luna E-1A No.1 (E-1A s/n 5), a Soviet lunar impactor intended to strike the Moon, launched on a Vostok-L 8K72 from Baikonur on 18 June 1959. The inertial guidance system failed at T+153 seconds and range safety destroyed the vehicle; the 387 kg probe never left Earth.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 Vostok-L 8K72 flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1959, 08:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-L 8K72
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1959
- 8th of 23