In late March 2022, Roscosmos reported that tests of the high-precision landing system for the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station had been successfully completed. It is targeted that the launch of Luna-25 will be carried out on August 22, 2022.
According to Alexander Mitkin, Deputy General Designer for Electrical Systems at NPO. SA Lavochkin, the group that has built and tested the Luna-25 probe, said the goal of the project is to send automated probes on research missions.
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The landing craft will land north of the Boguslavsky crater, a “reserve area” for landing craft is southwest of the Manzini crater. This is a follow-up landing after Russia’s robotic Moon lander has skidded repeatedly in the last year and May 2022.
Quoted from the leonarddavid page, Sunday (10/4/2022), the Luna-25 mission will study the upper surface layer in the Moon’s south polar region, the lunar exosphere and develop landing technology and soil sampling. The stated active life of the probe on the Moon’s surface is at least one Earth year.
This Russian Moon mission continued a series of lunar exploration activities of the former Soviet Union which ended in 1976. Luna-24 managed to deliver about 170 grams of lunar soil to Earth.
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The Luna-25 mission will be followed by the Luna-26 orbiter and the Luna-27 lander. After that it is planned to start deploying a full scientific station on the Moon in cooperation with China.
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