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July 26th, 2023
Image credit: Roscosmos
Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander continues to make progress as it heads for its August liftoff from the Vostochny launch site.
According to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, Luna-25 is now fueled with propellant and loaded with compressed gases.
Meanwhile, employees of the IKI RAS, the space research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have arrived at Vostochny to prepare the Luna-25 scientific equipment for launch.
Image credit: Roscosmos
IKI technicians are overseeing the completion of the installation of the ARIES-L scientific equipment and its verification, measurements of the radiation background on board the spacecraft for the space experiment with the ADRON-LR device, as well as carrying out final pre-launch operations with the spacecraft.
The Luna-25 is slated for touchdown at the Moon’s south pole.
Topographic map of the southern sub-polar region of the Moon showing the location of Boguslawsky crater.
Credit: Ivanov et al., 2015 via Arizona State University/LROC
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