A mission to the Earth satellite was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome
The Luna-25 automatic station successfully launched on Friday, at 2.11 Moscow time, to the Moon. At 3.30 Moscow time, it successfully separated from the upper stage and reached the desired flight path.
Launcher «Soyuz-2.1b» kicked off exactly at 2.11 minutes Moscow time. After 1 minute 59 seconds, the separation of the 1st stage passed, after 3.32 – dropping the head fairing flaps, after 5 minutes at an altitude of 90 kilometers, the second stage separated from the rocket and a little later – upper stage «Frigate» with the station.
At 3 hours 30 minutes Moscow time, the automatic station separated from the Frigate – she headed towards the moon on her own. According to experts, telemetry from the spacecraft comes to Earth normally, all units are working normally, on-board systems are oriented correctly.
The flight to the Moon should be 10 days, on August 21, specialists will land the device to the north from the crater Boguslavsky near the South Pole of the Moon. The reserve craters are Manzini and Pentland A.