L5 Heavy Lunar Rover
The L1 was only one flyby of the moon, as well as research on the surface had to be carried out not only in the framework of flights on A3. It was assumed that subsequent missions will be more complex and lengthy. Project L5 consisted in triggering heavy rover, which was delivered to the moon in an unmanned mode, after which the complex L3 delivered and a crew of three astronauts to Earth's satellite, which passed in the lunar rover and committed to him the expedition rover could move over distances up to several thousand kilometers at speeds up to 20 km / h.
With this device was launched by the same N1, which brought 64 tons of cargo to a low near-earth orbit, of which 14 tons were carried out on the flight path to the Moon. The landing on it was to be carried out without intercepting an intermediate orbit: at an altitude of 200-300 km, the main brake engines were activated, ensuring a smooth decline, which after switching on the soft landing engines ended with touching the surface at a vertical speed of no more than 4 m / s. The lunar rover itself weighed 5.5 tons.
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