section_path: Late 20th century–21st century uncrewed crash landings/SMART-1 (ESA)
section_name: SMART-1 (ESA)
paragraph_text: SMART-1 (ESA)
  
  Launched 27 September 2003, 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. At the end of its mission, the ESA lunar orbiter SMART-1 performed a controlled crash into the Moon, at about 2 km/s (7,200 km/h; 4,500 mph). The time of the crash was 3 September 2006, at 5:42 UTC.