Characteristics
- Destination:
- planetary research
- Status:
- decommissioned
- Research Object:
- The Moon
- Launch Date:
- January 8, 1973
- Spaceport:
- Baikonur
- Launchers:
- Proton-K with the D upper stage
- Machine Weight:
- Spacecraft mass: 5700 kg 8. Lunokhod-2 mass: 836 kg
- Working Orbit:
- flight trajectory to the Moon
- Active Lifetime:
- Active service life on the surface of the Moon: self-propelled Lunkhod-2 vehicle operated from January 18 to May 10, 1973
Description
The spacecraft delivered the self-propelled Lunokhod-2 vehicle to the lunar surface to conduct scientific research on the surface of the Moon. Lunokhod-2 covered a distance of 37 km, which was 3,5 times greater than the distance covered by the first self-propelled Lunokhod-1 vehicle. During this time 93 telephotometric panoramas and about 89 thousand pictures of slow-scanned television were transmitted to the Earth; also, measurements of chemical composition of the lunar soil and magnetic measurements were performed.
