VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME (Amur Region), Aug 11 Roscosmos to launch Luna-26 automatic station in 2027, Luna-27 in 2028, and Luna-28 after 2030 year, the head of the state corporation Yuri Borisov told reporters.
«We hope that in 2027 we will launch Luna-26, in 2028 — Luna-27, and somewhere by 2030- mu, after 2030 — «Luna-28″,» said Borisov. Nine minutes later, the Fregat upper stage with the Luna-25 station separated from the third stage of the rocket and entered Earth orbit.
soft landing in the region of the South Pole of the Moon with difficult terrain. All her predecessors landed in the equatorial zone. The main purpose of the station is to conduct contact studies of the lunar soil for the presence of ice.
Luna-25 will also be the first lunar station in the history of modern Russia. The last Soviet spacecraft sent to Earth's satellite was launched in 1976 and was called Luna-24.