Characteristics
- Destination:
- planetary research
- Status:
- decommissioned
- Research Object:
- The Moon
- Launch Date:
- March 31, 1966
- Spaceport:
- Baikonur
- Launchers:
- Molniya-M launch vehicle with the L upper stage
- Machine Weight:
- 1583,7 kg
- Working Orbit:
- satellite of the Moon
- Active Lifetime:
- 56 days
Description
The spacecraft was developed on the basis of the Luna-9 automatic station. Instead of an automatic lunar station there was a detachable pressurized container installed on the Luna-10 spacecraft – an artificial satellite of the Moon (ISL) quite simple in design and equipment composition. There was no orientation system present on ISL, therefore the spacecraft did a nonorientable flight. The ISL pressurized container had telemetry equipment needed to obtain housekeeping and scientific data, a timing device, a meter-range KRS radio system, RKT-1 decimeter-range transponder, electronic units of scientific instruments and chemical sources of current. The thermal control system of the pressurized container included a fan; heat release was done directly through the walls of the container.
The external surface of ISL was equipped with antennae of radio frequency systems, magnetometer boom of 1,5 m in length, as well as sensors of the scientific instruments.
