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Luna 25
Lunar Exploration
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)(RFSA)Government
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
LOorbit
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.
Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 11:10 PM
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Mission details
Orbital Attempt
#6,492
RFSA Mission
#314
Pad Launch
#15
Location Launch
#15
Designator
2023-118
Launch Window
NET
Aug 10, 2023, 11:10 PM
Precision
Second
Schedule Changes
1 update
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M Specs
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.
Length
46.3 m
Diameter
10.3 m
Launch Mass
313 t
Thrust
4,150 kN
LEO Capacity
8,200 kg
GTO Capacity
3,250 kg
Launch Cost
$49M
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2008
Fastest Turnaround
3d 9h
Total Launches
35
Successful
35
Failed
0
Consecutive Success
35
Maiden flight: Jul 26, 2008
Social Flight Log
- Aug 11, 2023, 1:25 AM
Successful deployment of Luna 25 into the trans-lunar trajectory
Source - Aug 10, 2023, 11:11 PM
Liftoff
Source - Aug 10, 2023, 10:00 PM
Livestream has started
Source - Aug 7, 2023, 12:45 PM
GO for launch.
Source - Jul 24, 2023, 2:07 AM
Tweaked T-0.
Source - Jun 8, 2023, 9:30 AM
Adding T-0.
Source - Jun 5, 2023, 3:28 PM
NET August 11.
Source - May 30, 2023, 5:52 PM
NET August 2023.
Source - May 12, 2023, 2:29 PM
Added launch time.
Source - Feb 23, 2023, 4:10 PM
NET July 13
Source - Sep 20, 2022, 4:37 PM
Delayed to NET July 2023
Source - Sep 7, 2022, 10:21 AM
NET 2023
Source - Jan 27, 2022, 1:02 PM
Adding T-0
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Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.
Founded
1992
Administrator
Administrator: Yuri Borisov
Total Launches
341
Successful
330
Failed
11
Pending
3
Consecutive Success
65
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on 28 April 2016 at 02:01 UTC.
Timezone
Asia/Yakutsk
Local Launch Time
Aug 11, 2023, 8:10 AM
Total Launches
21
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
51.8844, 128.3339