Today it should go into lunar orbit
The flight of the automatic station “Luna-25” to the natural satellite of the Earth continues. The press service of Roscosmos shared a new image from the cameras of the spacecraft.
This is a kind of space selfie – the picture shows parts of the station, including the emblem of the mission and the onboard arm bucket. With the help of the latter, research will be carried out on the surface of the moon.
Station “Luna-25” sent a new space selfie
The station was launched on August 11, 2023 from the Vostochny cosmodrome. The launch of the automatic station into a circumlunar circular orbit with a height of 100 km is scheduled for August 16, and its soft landing on the surface of a natural satellite of the Earth is scheduled for August 21 in the area north of the Boguslavsky crater.
The automatic station “Luna-25” should work out the technology of soft landing, take and analyze the soil and conduct long-term scientific research, study the upper layer of the surface regolith in the region of the South Pole of the Moon and the lunar exosphere.
As Roskosmos notes, in terms of landing, Luna-25 is fundamentally different from its predecessors: Soviet lunar stations “landed” in the equatorial zone, and the new station should make a soft landing in the circumpolar region with difficult terrain.
