Luna 7 (Ye-6 No.11), a Soviet soft-landing lunar probe and the maiden flight of the Molniya-M 8K78M. Launched from Baikonur LC-1/5 on 4 October 1965, it completed mid-course correction but lost attitude control near the Moon and crashed in Oceanus Procellarum on 7 October.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 4 October 1965, 07:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1965-077
- Launches in 1965
- 87th of 124
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