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Luna 2
CompletedUSSR
Image: NASA/NSSDCA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 12 Sept 195906:39:42 UTC
- Last contact
- 13 Sept 1959
- Duration
- 1 day
The first spacecraft to reach the surface of another world, striking the Moon after a flight of about a day and a half.
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Launch12 Sept 1959Hits the Moon13 Sept 1959
Spacecraft
Spherical probe carrying radiation detectors and a magnetometer, which found that the Moon has no significant magnetic field.
- Launch mass
- 205 kg
- Size
- 0.8 m × 0.8 m, span 2 m
- Power
- Battery
- Last contact
- 13 Sept 1959
- Designator
- 1959-014A
Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.
