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Russia will launch its first mission to the moon since 1976

2023-08-10 22:23:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Russia will launch its first mission to the moon since 1976

Russia is preparing to launch Luna 25, the country's first lunar lander in 47 years.

The uncrewed spacecraft will lift off this week from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Embarking on a journey aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 is expected to blast off at 8:10 a.m. local time on Friday, CNN reports .

The launch will be streamed live on the YouTube channel of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. Residents of a Russian village will be temporarily evacuated Friday morning after there is a "one in a million chance" that one of Luna 25's rocket stages could land there, according to Reuters.

The spacecraft is expected to first enter an orbit around Earth before transferring to a lunar orbit and eventually landing on the moon's surface. Russia's last lunar rover, Luna 24, landed on the Moon on August 18, 1976.

Luna 25 and India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, which launched in mid-July, are expected to land at the lunar south pole on August 23, and it is a race to see which country will land first, according to Reuters. But Roscomos said the two missions are not expected to cause a problem for each other because their specific landing areas differ, Reuters reported.

Luna 25, also called the Luna-Glob-Lander, will study the composition of the moon's polar soil and the plasma and dust contained in the very thin lunar exosphere, or the moon's thin atmosphere, for a year. /CNA





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