Luna 10
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| Organization: | Soviet Union |
| Major Contractors: | GSMZ Lavochkin |
| Mission Type: | Planetary Science Lunar Orbit |
| Satellite of: | Moon |
| Launch: | March 31, 1966 at 10:48:00 UTC |
| Launch Vehicle: | Molniya 8K78M (4-Stage R-7 / SS-6) |
| Mission Highlight: | Entered lunar orbit on April 3, 1966, 18:44 UTC. |
| Mission Duration: | 60-days. Last contact May 30, 1966 |
| Mass: | 1,582 kg |
| NSSDC ID: | 1966-027A |
| Webpage: | NASA NSSDC Master Catalog |
| Orbital elements | |
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| Semimajor Axis: | 2,413.0 km |
| Eccentricity: | .14 |
| Inclination: | 71.9° |
| Orbital Period: | 178.05 minutes |
| Aposelene: | 2,738 km |
| Periselene: | 2,088 km |
| Orbits: | 485 |
| Instruments | |
| Magnetometer : | Lunar magnetic field |
| Gamma-ray spectrometer : | |
| Five gas-discharge counters : | |
| Two ion traps/charged particle trap : | |
| Piezoelectric micrometeorite detector : | |
| Infrared detector : | |
| Low-energy x-ray photon counters : | |
Luna 10 (E-6S series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 10. The Luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966. It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon (or another heavenly body, for that matter). The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 3, 1966 and completed its first orbit 3 hours later (on April 4, Moscow time). Scientific instruments included a gamma-ray spectrometer for energies between 0.3—3 MeV (50–500 <a href="/wiki/Joule" title="