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Index Luna E-1 No.2

Luna E-1 No.2, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1958B, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1958.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Energia (corporation), Gagarin's Start, Launch vehicle, Luna (rocket), Luna E-1 No.1, Luna E-1 No.3, Luna programme, Moon, NASA, Pioneer 1, Pogo oscillation, Sergei Korolev, Serial number, Sodium, Soviet Union.

  2. Luna programme
  3. Spacecraft launched in 1958

Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan.

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Energia (corporation)

PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya "Energiya" im.), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK "Energiya"), is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components.

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Gagarin's Start

Gagarin's Start (Гагаринский старт, Gagarinskiy start), also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 was a launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used by the Soviet space program and Roscosmos.

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Launch vehicle

A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space.

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Luna (rocket)

The Luna 8K72 vehicles were carrier rockets used by the Soviet Union for nine space probe launch attempts in the Luna programme between 23 September 1958 and 16 April 1960. Luna E-1 No.2 and Luna (rocket) are Luna programme.

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Luna E-1 No.1

Luna E-1 No.1, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1958A, was a Soviet Luna E-1 spacecraft which was intended to impact the Moon. Luna E-1 No.2 and Luna E-1 No.1 are Luna programme and spacecraft launched in 1958.

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Luna E-1 No.3

Luna E-1 No.3, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1958C, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1958. Luna E-1 No.2 and Luna E-1 No.3 are Luna programme and spacecraft launched in 1958.

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Luna programme

The Luna programme (from the Russian word "Luna" meaning "Moon"), occasionally called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Pioneer 1

Pioneer 1 (also known as Able 2) was an American space probe, the first under the auspices of NASA, which was launched by a Thor-Able rocket on 11 October 1958. Luna E-1 No.2 and Pioneer 1 are spacecraft launched in 1958.

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Pogo oscillation

Pogo oscillation is a self-excited vibration in liquid-propellant rocket engines caused by combustion instability.

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov,; Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov,; 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Serial number

A serial number is a unique identifier used to uniquely identify an item, and is usually assigned incrementally or sequentially.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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See also

Luna programme

Spacecraft launched in 1958

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_E-1_No.2

Also known as Luna 1958B.