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Luna 22 (Ye-8-LS series) was an unmanned space mission part of the Soviet Luna program also called Lunik 22.Luna 22 was a lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft carried imaging cameras and also had the objectives of studying the Moon’s magnetic field surface gamma ray emissions and composition of lunar surface rocks and the gravitational field as well as micrometeorites and cosmic rays. Luna 22 was launched into Earth parking orbit and then to the moon.