MOSCOW, August 28 The cost of replaying and sending the mission of the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station could be about 4-5 billion rubles, such an opinion in a conversation with said the cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov.
«»I would say 4-5 billion. Firstly, given that a lot has already been developed. Maybe it will be necessary to correct something in the light of work on the bugs, but this will no longer be so important», Zheleznyakov said.
Besides, the period of creating the second such station will be shorter than it took to build Luna-25, so the overhead costs will be significantly less, added the cosmonautics historian.
At the same time, he called his assessment rather rough.
Zheleznyakov recalled that, according to his calculations, the cost of creating the crashed Luna-25 was 12.6 billion rubles.
The Luna-25 station, launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on August 11, crashed on the surface of the Moon on August 19 due to engine malfunction. Roskosmos reported late last week that as one of the options for continuing the Russian lunar program, the possibility of repeating the mission to land on the South Pole in 2025-2026 could be considered. As Yury Borisov, CEO of the state corporation, specified, the functionality not implemented during this mission will be assigned to the following lunar vehicles. url=»https://ria.ru/20230828/komissiya-1892589038.html» data-title='The scientist spoke about the work of the Luna-25 emergency commission'>
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