Luna 19 (Ye-8LS №202), a Soviet lunar orbiter launched on a Proton-K/D from Baikonur to map the lunar surface, measure the Moon’s gravitational field, and study the near-lunar environment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 28th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1971, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1971-082
- Launches in 1971
- 91st of 133
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