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Luna-25 Enters Moon Orbit: Russian Space Agency Roscosmos

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Luna-25 - Sputnik India, 1920, 16.08.2023
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With Luna-25 mission, Russia is shooting for the Moon — for the first time since the Soviet era.
Russia's Luna-25 mission has enter the Moon orbit of earth's satellite, the nation's space agency Roscosmos announced on Wednesday afternoon.
All systems of the station are functioning normally, communication with it is stable, the agency added.
On Monday, the Russian Space Research Institute published first pictures provided by Russia's moon mission.
The first lunar mission in Russia's post-Soviet space history launched last week and is scheduled to make a soft landing on the Moon as early as 21 August. The exact landing site is supposed to be at the Boguslawsky crater at 72.9˚S 43.2˚E (the Moon's south pole, close to where India's Chandrayyan-3 is expected to land).
Soyuz rocket carrying Luna-25 lunar research station erected at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. - Sputnik India, 1920, 11.08.2023
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