MOSCOW, August 11 Automatic station «Luna-25» continues its flight to the Earth's satellite, Roskosmos reported «on its website.
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«According to the received telemetric information, the service and onboard systems of «Luna-25» are functioning normally. Communication with the station is stable and stable. The control group is operating normally,” the publication says.
The Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the first domestic lunar station Luna-25 in almost 50 years was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome at 02:11 Moscow time . Subsequently, the station separated from the upper stage and entered the flight path to the Earth's natural satellite. In five days, it will enter a circumlunar circular orbit with a height of one hundred kilometers.
Luna-25 should be the first station to make a soft landing in the region of the Moon's South Pole with difficult terrain — it is expected on August 21. All the station's predecessors landed in the equatorial zone. The main goal of Luna-25 is to conduct contact studies of the lunar soil for the presence of ice.