Luna 12 was an
unmanned space mision[?] of the
Luna program, also called Lunik 12.
Luna 12 was launched towards the
Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and achieved lunar orbit on October 25, 1966. The spacecraft was equipped with a television system that obtained and transmitted photographs of the lunar surface. The photographs contained 1100 scan lines with a maximum resolution of 14.9-19.8 m. Pictures of the lunar surface were returned on October 27, 1966. The number of photographs is not known. Radio transmissions from Luna 12 ceased on January 19, 1967, after 602 lunar orbits and 302 radio transmissions.
- Launch Date/Time: 1966-10-22 at 08:38:00 UTC
- On-orbit dry mass: 1620 kg