Moscow-Sana
Russia will launch the unmanned Luna 25 spacecraft to the moon from the Vostochny Cosmodrome at the end of next August.
"The Luna 25 probe will be launched to the moon on August 22," the deputy chief designer for the development of electrical devices at the Russian company "Lavochkin" Alexander Mitkin was quoted by TASS news agency as saying today, adding, "It will become the first space device in contemporary Russia to reach the moon since 1972." .
Mitkin recalled that the launch of the spacecraft was first planned in the summer of 2022, and said, "The purpose of the project is to send an automatic probe to study the area near the south pole of the moon, and it is also planned to land the probe near the Bogoslavsky crater."
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