The Russian Luna-25 lunar lander has arrived at the launch site and will lift off on August 11.
CTOnews.com July 18 news, Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has arrived in the Russian Far East Vostok Cosmodrome (Vostok Cosmodrome). The mission is scheduled to launch on August 11, TASS reported.
India also launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission last week, while Japan's SLIM is scheduled for launch on August 26.
▲ Source: Roscosmos, the same below
According to a statement issued by Russian aerospace company NPO Lavochkina, the construction of the lunar lander has been completed. The company is one of the contractors of Roscosmos National Space Company, which is responsible for manufacturing the lunar lander.
"The instrument will be the world's first to make a soft landing on the lunar surface in the Antarctic region and conduct contact studies of lunar soil at the landing site to detect the presence of ice," the statement said. "
Luna-25 is Russia's long-planned lunar exploration mission, which will use "the latest achievements in the field of completely Russian elemental foundations and space instruments."
According to Lavochkin, the mission aims to "develop basic techniques for soft landings in circumpolar regions and to conduct contact studies to the Moon's South Pole."
Compared to earlier Soviet lunar probes, the Luna-25 spacecraft was fundamentally different in terms of landing. According to the introduction,"the Soviet Union landed in the equatorial region of the moon, and the new station will provide soft landing in the polar region and complex terrain for the first time." "
In this photo released by Roscosmos, Russia's national space agency, lab technicians dressed in clean overalls package a spacecraft wrapped in gold foil.
The Luna-25 is designed to be Russia's first modern home-grown equipment to travel to the moon. The probe's goal is to land in an area of the moon's south pole near Boguslavsky crater, while there is a "spare area" to the southwest, south of Manzini crater.
CTOnews.com inquired about public information and learned that Luna-25 mainly studied the surface conditions of the upper atmosphere of the lunar south pole, the lunar corona and landing and soil sampling techniques. The rover will remain active on the lunar surface for at least a year.
Russia's lunar exploration mission continues the Soviet Union's lunar exploration activities. The series ended in 1976, when Luna-24 successfully returned about 170 grams of lunar soil to Earth.
Prior to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the European Space Agency (ESA) had planned to provide the Luna-25 with a European pilot D camera specifically designed for precision landing, but ESA has cancelled this cooperation project, as well as many other cooperative space projects.
