Kosmos 60 Ye-6 Lunar Soft-Landing Spacecraft
Kosmos 60 was the Soviet Ye-6 No. 9 lunar-soft-landing spacecraft launched on 12 March 1965. It carried an imaging system and SBM-10 radiation detector, but its Blok L upper stage failed to fire for translunar injection because of an I-100 control-system converter problem; the spacecraft remained in Earth orbit and decayed five days later.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Kosmos 60Kosmos-60Ye-6 No. 9Luna 1965A
- Family Name
- Kosmos 60
- Full Name
- Kosmos 60 Ye-6 Lunar Soft-Landing Spacecraft
- Roles
- landerresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Kosmos 60 was the Soviet Ye-6 No. 9 lunar-soft-landing spacecraft launched on 12 March 1965. It carried an imaging system and SBM-10 radiation detector, but its Blok L upper stage failed to fire for translunar injection because of an I-100 control-system converter problem; the spacecraft remained in Earth orbit and decayed five days later.
- First Flight Year
- 1,965
- Last Flight Year
- 1,965
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass Kg
- 1,470
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- Creation Time
- August 15, 2026 at 00:22:18 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 15, 2026 at 03:39:44 UTC