Launch of "Luna-25 "

 Launch of "Luna-25 " Academician Lev Zeleny defined the reason for the postponement of the launch of "Luna-25"

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The launch of the "challenge of the year" - the Luna-25 equipment, previously planned for August - has been postponed to subsequent 12 months, Yury Borisov, Director General of Roscosmos, said at the Eastern Economic Forum. Correspondent "ANG-NP" discovered the reasons for the switch.Russian News

The device became presupposed to be released on August 22 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and land for the first time at the South Pole of the Moon, wherein there are the richest deposits of water ice. 

Initially, it turned into planned to launch our lunar spacecraft in November or December 2019 the usage of the Soyuz 2.1b launch automobile. Then Roscosmos postponed the launch to 2021, designating the maximum foremost "window" between July and October 2021. Covid

Further, Luna-25 turned into again driven back - already to August 2022. According to specialists, this changed into due to the want to finish hearth exams of the propulsion machine, with which problems had previously arisen, in addition to the need for additional time to work out the station's structures.Jobs

However, these and later electrostatic exams of the tool, as well as assessments in a thermal chamber closest to the situations of a actual area flight, again confirmed that Luna-25 became not geared up for release.

In Roskosmos, this turned into defined with the aid of “positive technical difficulties regarding the tool of an external manufacturer”, namely, the Doppler speed and range meter (DISD-LR) evolved at the Vega Concern JSC. Shortly before the release, it grew to become out that its characteristics did no longer meet the necessities of the technical specifications. In other words, it couldn't work at some point of touchdown and spoil a completely unique tool. 

It was necessary to refine the touchdown scheme and control algorithms and behavior additional trying out. This is now being accomplished with the aid of professionals from NPO them. Lavochkin. If the checks are a success, then Luna-25 will visit the Moon within the release "astronomical window" of 2023, from July to August.

“Without the DISD-LR device, it's far not possible to make a gentle touchdown,” Academician Lev Zeleny, medical director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (that is the top scientific corporation of the assignment for clinical payload), explained the scenario to ANG. - We at the RAS determined that we simplest need a victory, and we’d higher wait one year, however we can ensure that our tool will efficiently land on the moon, as as soon as, in Soviet instances, the primary Soviet Lunas efficaciously landed. Facebook

But there are also the following gadgets - from Luna-26 to Luna-28. The latter is meant to deliver regolith samples from the Moon to Earth. And now we have no doubts that the lunar application will increase.