Russia successfully launches its robotic mission to conquer the Moon

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After 47 years, Russia successfully launched its first spacecraft with a lunar landing. From the Vostochny cosmodrome , located 5,500 kilometers east of Moscow, the Russian space agency, whose official name is State Space Corporation, better known as Roscosmos, completed the takeoff of the Soyus rocket carrying the Luna-25 module. The purpose is for the vehicle to land at the south pole of the Earth satellite to collect soil samples useful in planning future missions. The chosen destination is considered by scientists as a potential source of water.

The mission will be robotic. The Luna-25 weighs 1.8 tons and has 31 kilograms of payl Phone Number List oad capacity. The spacecraft will use a scoop to collect rock samples at a depth of 15 centimeters to detect frozen water , the “lunar holy grail” that can be used to extract fuel, oxygen and drinking water, according to researchers.

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Roscosmos estimates that its spacecraft will take five days to reach the Moon. It will spend between five and seven days in the satellite's orbit and then descend near one of three possible landing sites near the pole.

"The spacecraft is scheduled to enter lunar orbit on August 16, with a landing on the surface of the Earth's natural satellite scheduled for August 21 north of the Boguslawsky crater [lunar south pole]," the Russian agency said in a statement. a statement. After landing, the spacecraft will remain on the satellite for one year to collect samples and perform soil analyzes that favor "long-term scientific research."

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The robotic mission to the Moon that Russia launched is the commitment of the largest country in the world to conquer the new lunar race that is also of interest to other countries such as India and Japan. "The Moon is the seventh continent on Earth, so we are simply 'doomed,' so to speak, to tame it," said Lev Zeleny, a space researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences.



The proposal is ambitious. In an interview with the official Rossíiskaya Gazeta newspaper, Alexander Blokhin, a senior Roscosmos official, recalled that if the mission reaches the Moon without setbacks, “ for the first time in history there will be a landing at the lunar south pole. Until now, everyone landed on the moon in the equatorial zone.”

The successful takeoff of the Soyus rocket does not guarantee that the Russian space agency's intentions will be fully fulfilled. Last June, Yuri Borisiv, director of Roscosmos, described the mission as spatially risky. "In the world, the possibility of success of this type of mission is estimated at 70%," he pointed out.

Independent Russian analyst Vitali Yegorov told AFP that now the most important question is discovering whether Luna-24 can actually land on the moon. The mission is a test for Moscow's space program. The Soyus liftoff comes at a time when the Russian space program operates in isolation.