The Fregat upper stage, the first in the history of the modern Russian internal lunar station Luna-25, broke away from the third stage of the Soyuz 2.1b launch vehicle launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome. DEA News.
“There is a section of the head unit. The main unit … was placed in a reference orbit, ”says the agency, quoting a commentator at an observation point.
It was learned that he was from the Vostochny cosmodrome earlier. launched Launch the “Soyuz-2.1b” vehicle with the “Fregat” upper stage and the automatic station “Luna-25”.
With words The Luna-25 station should land on a natural satellite of the Earth on August 21, said Yuri Borisov, General Manager of Roskosmos.
Prior to this, the press service of Roscosmos reported that the launch of the mission was postponed from July to August in order to ensure the necessary credibility of the project.
In July, the Luna-25 was delivered to the Vostochny cosmodrome. The aim of the project is to send an automated probe to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The module is scheduled to land near the Boguslavsky crater.
The launch of the previous domestic station “Luna-24” took place in 1976.
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