25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
... during crucial tests. "The launch of the Luna-25 automatic inter-planetary station from the Vostochny Cosmodrome...as it required complex orbital manoeuvres. When eventually ready, Luna-25 will become Russia’s first domestic spacecraft in its post...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... the numbering scheme of the old series, the programme includes the Luna-25 lander, the Luna-26 orbiter and the Luna-27 lander (also called Luna-Resurs). Luna-27 is focused on the discovery and characterisation of lunar resources including volatiles...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
...a longer period of time. Polina Kuznetsova during vestibular tolerance testing During analysis of the data obtained by the Luna-2015 project, unique information was obtained about the early stages of female body adaptation to living in a hermetically...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... order to collect statistics of counts from gamma rays. “Lunokhod-Geolog”, could be referring to Luna-27. Also called the Luna-Resurs lander, Luna-27 is a planned lunar lander mission by Roscosmos in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... a number of reconnaissance missions with China’s Chang’e-4, -6 and -7 missions, and Russia’s Luna 25, 26 and 27 missions. Recently though, Russia acknowledged that Luna-25, the country’s first mission to the Moon’s surface in 45 years, has been...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
..., head of the China National Space Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents in Russia on Tuesday. Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft is a planned lunar polar orbiter that would also function as a telecomm relay between Earth and...
