Luna 10

Luna 10 (also called Lunik 10 or Object 02126 ) was it tenth Soviet probe of the Programme Luna.

The probe Luna 10 was launched towards the the Moon starting from an intermediate terrestrial orbit. The probe was placed in lunar orbit on April 3rd, 1966 and carried out its first revolution at the end of 3 a.m. The embarked scientific instruments included/understood:

  • a Spectrometer with operative gamma rays in the energy band 0,3 to 3 MeV;
  • a magnetometer three axes;
  • a detector of meteorites;
  • an instrument intended for the study of solar plasma;
  • of the equipment to measure the emissions infra-red of the Moon and the radiative conditions of the lunar environment;
Studies of the lunar field of gravitation were also undertaken. For the anecdote, the probe retransmit towards the Earth a recording of the International at the time of XXIIe congress of the Soviet Communist party. Luna 10 remained operational during 460 revolutions and carried out 219 data transmissions towards the Earth until the total loss of the signal on May 30th, 1966.

Experiment of magnetometry

Luna 10 carried out the measurement of the lunar magnetic field intermittently over two months. The instrument was a magnetometer three axes gauged from -50 to +50 nanoteslas. No restitution of attitude of the satellite was used, also only the resultant of the magnetic field and its components compared to the axis of instantaneous spin of the satellite were given. The magnetometer was located at the end of a mast, to 1,5 m of the probe. The period of sampling of the vector magnetic field was of 128 S. the precision of measurements was estimated at 9 nanoteslas for the component parallel with the axis of spin and 2,5 nanoteslas for the perpendicular component, is a residual error of 10 nanoteslas on the resultant.

Characteristics mission

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