Luna 9 - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

-- Originally uploaded on April 2, 2010 --

Luna 9 (occasionally called Lunik 9 or Lunnik 9) was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. On February 3, 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data to Earth. For unknown reasons, the pictures from Luna 9 were not released immediately by the Soviet authorities. Instead, the Jodrell Bank Observatory, which was monitoring the craft, noticed that the signal format used was identical to the internationally-agreed system used by newspapers for transmitting pictures. The Daily Express rushed a suitable receiver to the Observatory and the pictures from Luna 9 were decoded and published world-wide.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• orbiter
• space
• flight
• simulator
• 2006
• moon
• luna
• lunik
• soviet
• spacecraft
• ussr
• 1966
• race
• landing

[linghun]

I don't think its possible for a Soyuz rocket to deliver that kind of a payload to lunar orbit or surface.

[rseferino1]

@linghun No Soyuz rocket, is Molniya 8K78M. see in website wikipedia "Luna 9". In website astronautix "Luna E-6" a "Molniya 8K78

[Senor1Droolcup]

Another great Orbiter video, Rseferino: keep it up! How about a couple of abort sequences for Apollo and the Shuttle?

[rseferino1]

@Senor1Droolcup Yes. I'm planning one with a shuttle RLTS.

[kuki5050]

@rseferino1 I agree. Only Molniya M rockets was used for sending probes in middle of Luna programme operated by Soviet Union. Soyuz rocket could only launch the manned spacecraft into Low Earth Orbit.

[Tyrannobeast]

This is my very favorite of all of your videos. I could never find any good material on how Luna 9 actually touched down, and assumed it was through some jettisoned retro-rocket assembly of some sort. Glad to see I was right!

[ParaglidingManiac]

How about inter planetary travels with a Space Shuttle? With additional thrust rockets and fuel of course.

[loperspest]

Wonderful job celebrating a stunning engineering and scientific achievement.

I would also like to congratulate you on your excellent choice of music and the effort put to synchronising it with the action and emotion. Bravo.

[IIIIandrew]

epic

what song?

[DRCUDA]

Thanks for posting

Nice work