According to the press service of the Roscosmos company, the Luna-25 station has carried out the first planned correction of the flight trajectory to the Earth satellite. telegraph channel.
According to the company, the Luna-25 propulsion system was activated at 16:00 Moscow time and worked for 46 seconds. The station will have another orbit correction, after which it is expected to enter a prelunar orbit and land on the moon.
Ivan Moiseev, Head of the Space Policy Institute, stated that launching a satellite to the Moon would not be the beginning of a new space race. being ready sending a man to the moon again.
Luna-25 is aimed at restoring the technologies that we had only in the mid-60s of the last century, namely the technology of landing on the moon, the possibility of landing on the moon. This is now quietly being done in China. Two days after our station, the Indian station will again land at the South Pole. In general, in comparison with the Chinese or American lunar programs, the Russian program is practically zero, ”the scientist emphasized.
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