Space AtlasLUNA 3
NORAD 21 · Payload · Reentered 1960-04-20
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- 1959-10-04 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Planetary science
- Mass
- 278 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.2 m · 1.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 500 × 499,998 km
- Inclination
- 55.0°
- Period
- 21562.3 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.9700
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).