Luna E-6 No.2 (Sputnik 25), the first Ye-6 soft lunar lander attempt and maiden Molniya-L flight from Baikonur on 4 January 1963. The upper-stage ullage motor failed to ignite for translunar injection, stranding the probe in a useless low Earth orbit until reentry on 11 January.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 4 January 1963, 08:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1963-001
- Launches in 1963
- 1st of 69
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