Residents of the village of Shakhtinsky in the Khabarovsk Territory are planned to be evacuated on August 11 due to the threat of the fall of the first stage of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, which will launch the Luna-25 station into space. Meduza drew attention to the publication of the head of the Verkhnebureinsky district, Alexei Maslov.
According to Maslov, the residents of Shakhty are going to be evacuated before 7:30 am local time (00:30 Moscow time). It is known that in 2021, during the census, researchers recorded that 27 people live in the village, the publication noted. When the residents of Shakhtinsky will be able to return home, the head of the district did not specify.
Maslov added: “It is forbidden to enter the fall zone of the first stage of the launch vehicle! The mouth of the Umalta, Ussamakh, Lepikan, Tastakh, Saganar rivers and the area of the ferry crossing on the Bureya River fall into the proposed fall zone.
The launch of Luna-25, the first lunar station in modern Russia, is scheduled for August 11 at 02:10 Moscow time, RIA Novosti reports. Reserve time — August 12 at 02:35 Moscow time. The carrier rocket «Soyuz-2.1b» will take off from the launch pad of the Vostochny cosmodrome. It is located a few hundred kilometers from the village of Shakhtinsky.
Screenshot of a map showing the location of the Vostochny cosmodrome and the village of Shakhtinsky: «Mediazona»
«Luna-25» will also be the first station to land on the South Pole of the Moon. The main tasks of the mission will be the development of soft landing technologies, the study of the internal structure of the satellite and exploration of resources. The previous station, Luna-24, was launched to the Moon in 1976.
The next missions — the launches of the Luna-26 orbiter and the Luna-27 landing station — are going to be carried out in 2027 and 2028. According to Meduza, the European Space Agency initially planned to participate in all missions together with Roscosmos. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the organization refused to cooperate.