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Raumfahrt - Russia to launch Luna-27 lunar lander mission atop Angara rocket from Vostochny spaceport

23.10.2021

The Luna-26 lunar orbiter is due to be launched atop a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket
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The Russian Luna-27 lunar automatic station will be launched atop an Angara carrier rocket from the Vostochny spaceport, Head of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said in a new film series of the General Line program on Wednesday.

"The Luna-27 is a heavy lander with a drilling rig that will be lifted by an Angara. That is why we are planning to launch these rovers in 2024 and 2025," the Roscosmos chief said.

The Luna-26 lunar orbiter is due to be launched atop a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket, he said.

Initially, a Soyuz-2 rocket was planned for launching the Luna-27 mission. 

Russia's first lunar mission since the Soviet Union is planned for 2022 (Luna-25) to be followed by the Luna-26 probe in 2024, the Luna-27 station in 2025 and the Luna-28 vehicle in 2027-2028.

The Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s first civilian cosmodrome located near the town of Tsiolkovsky (built on the territory of the former settlement of Uglegorsk in 2015) in the Amur Region in the Russian Far East. A decree on the spaceport’s construction was signed by the Russian president in 2007. A multi-purpose launch compound for Soyuz-2 carrier rockets was built in 2012-2016 during the first stage of the cosmodrome’s construction.

The second stage envisages building a launch pad for Angara-A5 carrier rockets and the associated infrastructure. The construction of the spaceport’s second stage is expected to be completed in late 2022.

The Angara is a family of next-generation Russian space rockets. It consists of light, medium and heavy carrier rockets with a lifting capacity of up to 37.5 tonnes. Angara rocket units are produced at the Omsk-based Polyot Production Association (part of the Khrunichev Space Center within Roscosmos). The first two launches of the Angara carrier rocket were conducted on December 23, 2014 and December 14, 2020 from the Plesetsk space center.

Quelle: TASS
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Update: 28.10.2021
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Roscosmos chief vows to turn Luna-27 mission into international lunar project

Russia's first lunar mission since the Soviet Union is planned for 2022 (Luna-25) to be followed by the Luna-26 probe in 2024, the Luna-27 station in 2025 and the Luna-28 project in 2027-2028

Russia’s Luna-27 automatic lunar station scheduled for launch to the Earth’s natural satellite in 2025 will be implemented jointly with international partners, Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told a briefing at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai on Tuesday.

"I believe that the Luna-27 mission will already be a full-fledged international project," Rogozin said.

The Roscosmos chief said he had discussed this project with French specialists who possessed water ice treatment technologies.

"Ice means water and hydrogen. This is actually fuel for rocket engines. So, we unexpectedly discussed this interesting project today. I invited their specialists to Russia and we already got in touch with our specialists," Rogozin said.

 

Russia's first lunar mission since the Soviet Union is planned for 2022 (Luna-25) to be followed by the Luna-26 probe in 2024, the Luna-27 station in 2025 and the Luna-28 project in 2027-2028.

The 72nd International Astronautical Congress is running at the Dubai World Trade Center under the aegis of the International Astronautical Federation on October 25-29. The congress has brought together the heads of space agencies from different countries, space industry representatives, equipment producers and scientists specializing in space-related problems. Specialists will demonstrate their achievements and discuss plans for future space exploration missions.

Quelle: TASS

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Russlands Luna-27 Landers mit ESA Eisbohrer für Mission 2020 / 21.05.2016

 

Lunar Lander before touchdown on the Moon.
Lunar Lander is a robotic explorer that will demonstrate key European technologies and conduct science experiments. The mission is a forerunner to future human and robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars. It will establish European expertise to allow strong international partnerships in exploration.
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A drill designed to penetrate 1–2 m into the lunar surface is envisaged by ESA to fly to the Moon’s south pole on Russia’s Luna-27 lander in 2020.
“It is an essential part of a science and exploration package being developed to reach, extract and analyse samples from beneath the surface in the Moon’s south polar region,” explains lunar exploration systems engineer Richard Fisackerly.
“This region is of great interest to lunar researchers and explorers because the low angle of the Sun over the horizon leads to areas of partial or even complete shadow. These shadowed areas and permanently dark crater floors, where sunlight never reaches, are believed to hide water ice and other frozen volatiles.”
Developed by Finmeccanica in Nerviano, Italy, the drill would first penetrate into the frozen ‘regolith’ and then deliver the samples to a chemical laboratory, which is being developed by the UK’s Open University.
The development team has tested the drill design with simulated lunar soil cooled to –140°C (typical of the expected landing site of Luna-27) but the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon are known to be even colder, at down to –240°C.
The drill system plus laboratory are collectively known as Prospect: Platform for Resource Observation and in-Situ Prospecting in support of Exploration, Commercial exploitation & Transportation.
Prospect is one of the packages being developed by ESA for flight to the Moon as part of cooperation on Russia’s lunar programme. Pilot – Precise Intelligent Landing using On-board Technology – is an autonomous precision landing system incorporating ‘laser radar’ lidar for hazard detection and avoidance.
These packages are being developed by ESA’s Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration and will be proposed for approval to fly by ESA’s Council of European Ministers in December 2016.
Quelle: ESA
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Update: 16.01.2023
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Research institute set to switch over to Russian-made equipment for lunar mission

Relevant work will begin in 2023, said Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology at the IKI RAS

This year, the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences will start transitioning the scientific equipment for Luna 27, a planned lunar lander mission, to Russian-made components, a senior IKI researcher told TASS.

"This year, we will definitely work with" Luna 27, Igor Mitrofanov, who heads the Nuclear Planetology Department at IKI, said. "We will start using Russian-made equipment," he specified.

The researcher said these processes were necessitated by import substitution. "Previously, we designed equipment using foreign components that we could buy from our foreign colleagues. Now that the sanctions have been imposed, we will [be switching to] Russian-made components," Mitrofanov explained. According to him, researchers have to change design solutions amid the Western restrictions.

The Luna 26 mission was originally planned for 2024, Luna 27 for 2025, and Luna 28 for 2027-2028. Last fall, Mitrofanov told TASS that the launches might be postponed by up to two years because of import substitution.

Quelle: TASS

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Update: 30.12.2023

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Russia’s Luna-27b probe may explore Moon’s North Pole or its far side — program chief

Lev Zeleny added that the possibility of sending another vehicle to the far side of the Moon was also being considered

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The automated Luna-27b interplanetary probe may be launched on a space flight either to the North Pole of the Moon or to its far side, Lev Zeleny, head of the lunar program’s first stage, told TASS.

"We have suggested sending one probe to the South Pole. If it works well, another one may be sent to some place. For instance, to the North Pole," said Zeleny, the research director of the Space Research Institute (SRI) under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

The Moon’s North Pole has remained somewhat neglected by the international scientific community, he pointed out.

"All this armada of spacecraft, both the Chinese and the US’ Artemis program, is targeting the South Pole," Zeleny clarified.

This research gap stems from the fact that data from Russia’s LEND instrument, which has been installed on the US Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has indicated that a greater amount of water ice is to be found at the South Pole, Zeleny elaborated.

Zeleny noted that, at this point, humanity should be interested not in the total amount of ice at the poles, but in the fundamental possibility of studying it and verifying its composition.

"Of course, in this case, there is no significant difference between the North and South poles, but the comparison of measurements at the North and South poles will yield a lot," he explained.

Zeleny added that the possibility of sending another vehicle to the far side of the Moon was also being considered.

"There are other ideas. Another probe can be landed, for example, on the back side of the Moon in a circumpolar region. There are big craters there too, and the comparison of polar and subpolar regions would be of great interest, too," he concluded.

Proposed Luna-27 mission

The Luna-27 mission is to test techniques for conducting safe, high-precision landings on the Earth's natural satellite, as well as to conduct research of the Moon in the area of the South Pole.

On Tuesday, Yuri Borisov, CEO of Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, said that his organization was considering a RAS proposal for creating two Luna-27 vehicles to enhance reliability and ensure that the goals of the research mission are achieved.

Quelle: TASS

 

 

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