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August 25th, 2023
Image credit: Roscosmos
Working meetings are underway at NPO Lavochkin to begin sorting out issues that led to the August 19 crash of Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander.
The Lavochkin group led the development, design, building and testing of the Luna-25.
Roscosmos chief, Yuri Borisov, met with the Luna-25 development team.
Image credit: Roscosmos/IKI/NPO Lavochkin
“He discussed with the enterprise team and Russian scientists the possible reasons for the unfinished Luna-25 mission, as well as the future prospects of the Russian lunar program. Before the meeting, he toured the booth, which had been set up specifically to test the mission’s software,” according to a Roscosmos telegram posting.
Image credit: Roscosmos
Unfinished mission
“Yuri Borisov emphasized that the unfinished mission of Luna-25 does not put the prospects of lunar exploration on hold,” the communiqué noted. “There is no need to make a tragedy out of this, we need to draw conclusions and continue working in this direction,” adding that Russian designers and scientists are “burning with the idea of continuing the lunar project.”
According to the Roscosmos posting, “one of the options for continuing the program may be the possibility of repeating the mission to land on the south pole of the Moon in 2025-2026.”
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