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July 12th, 2023
Image credit: Roscosmos Television Video/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Russia’s Luna-25 robotic Moon lander is at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. The craft will be headed for the south pole of the Moon, reportedly targeted for launch on August 11, 2023.
Image credit: Roscosmos Television Video/Inside Outer Space screengrab
At the cosmodrome, Luna-25 will undergo pre-flight checkout and undergo ground tests, and then fitted to a Fregat upper stage and placed atop a Soyuz-2.1b booster.
Image credit: Roscosmos Television Video/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Russia’s Roscosmos reports that the main task of the mission is to develop the basic technologies for a soft landing in the circumpolar region and conduct contact studies of the south pole of the Moon.
Go to this Roscosmos Television Video at: http://www.tvroscosmos.ru/print/7408/
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