Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25

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From Ars Technica:
"Russia's space agency successfully launched a robotic spacecraft Thursday on a journey to the Moon, the country's first lunar explorer since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/r ... h-luna-25/

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From Space.com:
"Russia launches Luna-25 moon lander, its 1st lunar probe in 47 years"

https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-mo ... ch-success

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From SpaceFlightNow.com:
"Russia shoots for the Moon for the first time since 1976"

https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/10/r ... ince-1976/

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[Unitron48]

The Lunar surface is getting crowded! It's been a long time for the Russians!!

Dave

[StarHugger]

Cool to see Lunar explorations picking up the pace,

Best of luck for a safe land and mission success everyone!

[Unitron48]

Luna 25 reaches Lunar orbit!

"The nation's Luna-25 mission — its first moon effort since Luna-24 in 1976, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union — successfully reached lunar orbit, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today (Aug. 16). And the spacecraft appears to be in good shape."

https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-reaches-orbit-moon

Dave

[Graeme1858]

All of the Luna-25 systems are operating normally and communication with the lunar probe is stable.


https://tass.com/science/1661349?utm_so ... cial_share

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From Tass:
"Luna-25 moon mission expected to land on August 21"

https://tass.com/russia/1659069

Good luck!

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From CNN:
“Russia’s lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/19/world/ru ... index.html

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From Space.com:
“Russia's Luna-25 moon lander suffers 'emergency situation' in lunar orbit”

https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-moon-lander-glitch

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[Graeme1858]

"an emergency situation occurred" is a bit vague!

I wonder what the problem was.

Graeme

[Chich]

The spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/russian-space ... 49113.html

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Here's another article from Ars Technica:
"Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/r ... a-century/

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[Unitron48]

Sorry to hear! Will be great to get some "close up" data from the South Pole!!

Dave

[helicon]

Sorry to hear. Sounds like it was an interesting mission.