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Luna 25

Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Lunar Exploration

Lunar Orbit Cosmodrome Site 1S Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

Luna 25 (ex-Luna-Glob) was a lunar lander mission by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) that crashed into the lunar surface after an anomalous orbital maneuver placed it on a collision trajectory towards the Moon. It was scheduled to land near the lunar south pole at the Boguslavsky crater to prove lunar landing technology. The mission carried 30 kg of scientific instruments, including a robotic arm for soil samples and possible drilling hardware. It was planned to remain active for at least one year on the lunar surface.

Updates

SwGustav • Aug. 11, 2023, 1:25 a.m.

Successful deployment of Luna 25 into the trans-lunar trajectory


SwGustav • Aug. 10, 2023, 11:11 p.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • Aug. 10, 2023, 10 p.m.

Livestream has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 7, 2023, 12:45 p.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 24, 2023, 2:07 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M

Family:
Configuration: Fregat-M

Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the 21st-century version of the Russian Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. The first-stage boosters and two core stages feature uprated engines with improved injection systems, compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz. Digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to be launched from a fixed launch platform, whereas the launch platforms for earlier Soyuz rockets had to be rotated as the rocket could not perform a roll to change its heading in flight.

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    46.3 m
  • Diameter
    10.3 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    4.11 m
  • Launch Mass
    313.0 T
  • Thrust
    4150.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    Fregat-M
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $48500000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    8200.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    3250.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Progress Rocket Space Center

Progress Rocket Space Center

(PRSC)

CEO: Dmitry Baranov Founded: 1996 Successes: 44 Failures: 1 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.

INFO WIKI
The Launch Pad

Luna-25 Crash Caused By Computer Glitch

Russia's attempt to land its first lunar mission in nearly half a century ended in disappointment as the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed on the moon's surface in August. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has now attributed the mission failur…

SpacePolicyOnline.com

Russia Traces Luna-25 Crash to Onboard Control System Failure

Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos has concluded that Luna-25 failed because the onboard control system did not receive required data from the accelerometer to trigger an engine shutdown at the […]

SpaceNews

Russia blames Luna-25 crash on computer glitch

Russia says its first lunar lander mission in nearly half a century crashed in August because of faulty commands in an onboard computer during a maneuver.

SpacePolicyOnline.com

Luna-25’s Engines Fired Longer Than Planned

The head of the Russian space agency said today that Luna-25 crashed into the Moon because the spacecraft’s engine fired longer than planned. The trouble began on Saturday when Luna-25 […]

Arstechnica

The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader

"There is no place for modernization, there is only the mission of survival."

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