Luna 17, a Soviet robotic lunar mission launched on a Proton-K/D from Baikonur that soft-landed in Mare Imbrium and deployed Lunokhod 1, the first remote-controlled rover to operate on the Moon.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 4.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 10 November 1970, 14:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1970-095
- Launches in 1970
- 103rd of 124
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