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- Luna 17 was launched from an earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on November 15, 1970. The spacecraft soft landed on the Moon in the Sea of Rains. The spacecraft had dual ramps by which the payload, Lunokhod 1, descended to the lunar surface. Lunokhod 1 was a lunar vehicle formed of a tub-like compartment with a large convex lid on eight independently powered wheels. Lunokhod was equipped with a cone-shaped antenna, a highly directional helical antenna, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to impact the lunar soil for soil density and mechanical property tests. An x-ray spectrometer, an x-ray telescope, cosmic-ray detectors, and a laser device were also included. The vehicle was powered by a solar cell array mounted on the underside of the lid. Lunokhod was intended to operate through three lunar days but actually operated for eleven lunar days. The operations of Lunokhod officially ceased on October 4, 1971, the anniversary of Sputnik 1. Lunokhod had traveled 10,540 m and had transmitted more than 20,000 TV pictures and more than 200 TV panoramas. It had also conducted more than 500 lunar soil tests. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: LUNOKHOD Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Interplanetary Spacecraft Short_Name: LUNOKHOD Long_Name: Lunar Retroreflector Array End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Luna 17 Short_Name: Lunik 17 Short_Name: Lunokhod 1 Short_Name: 04691 End_Group Creation_Date: 2012-07-18 Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1970-095A Sample_Image: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/thumbnail/spacecraft/luna17.gif Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1970-11-10 Launch_Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Tyuratam, Russia Primary_Sponsor: U.S.S.R End_Group End_Group
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