Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1

L1E #1, a reduced Zond L1 spacecraft with instrumented Blok-D upper stage to test lunar-insertion burns in high elliptical Earth orbit. Proton-K/D from Baikonur Site 81/23 failed on 28 November 1969 and did not reach orbit.

Outcome

Failure

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

18th

of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights

Date and time

28 November 1969, 09:00 UTC

Rocket

Proton / UR-500 K/D

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Unknown

Launches in 1969

117th of 125