Luna-25 — launch
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Luna 25, also known as the Luna-Glob lander, was a failed Russian lunar lander mission operated by Roscosmos. It was the first lunar mission undertaken by Russia since the Soviet-era Luna 24 in 1976, and was intended to be the first spacecraft ever to land near the lunar south pole. The spacecraft was manufactured by NPO Lavochkin and carried 30 kg (66 lb) of scientific instruments, including instruments for analyzing lunar regolith and measuring plasma in the exosphere. Luna 25 lifted off on August 10, 2023, at 23:10 UTC, atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur Region.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_25. Related NASA reference: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology.html#2023. Description adapted from Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- Luna 25
- Organization
- Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos)
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-2-1B
- Location
- Vostochniy, Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya
- Country
- RU
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Luna 25 (opens in a new tab) — Adapted from Wikipedia contributors; selected sentences retained and edited for length, reference markers and pronunciation glosses. CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Article and edit history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_25 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Luna 25 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Luna 25 (opens in a new tab)
