Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Luna E-8 No.201 also known as Luna Ye-8 No.201 and sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1969A was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1969. It was a 5590 kilograms (12320 lb) Luna E-8 spacecraft the first of three to be launched It was intended to perform a soft landing on the Moon in order to deploy a Lunokhod rover onto the surface. It carried the Lunokhod No.201 rover.
