Maybe 2022 will be the year of Luna 25 . Thevery - delayedRussian Moon mission might finally launch in the summer . That ’s agree to an annunciation from the Russian Space Program , stressed yesterday by President Vladimir Putin .
“ We will continue to create a new contemporaries ecstasy ship and technologies for nuclear space energy , where we sure have a very skillful and absolutely clear vantage . We will resume the lunar program , ” Putin is reported to have said , according toRussian - nation consort news show company RIA .
Putin say that the country will carry out its plan for quad “ despite attempts from outside to preclude it from move forward ” – that ’s a reference point to the sanctions impose on Russia survey theinvasion of Ukraine and the unfolding war crimes perpetratedby the Russian military in the former Soviet democracy .
The Russian plan for space gestate Luna 25 to set in motion this August . It is a automatonlike missionary station design to test landing technology and has 30 kg ( 66 pounds ) of scientific legal instrument to study the soil of Boguslavsky volcanic crater . It will be followed by Luna 26 in 2024 , an orbiter to map out the moon , and then it will be the time for Luna 27 – a lander expected for August 2025 . To top off this challenging plan , Russia want to set ashore humans on the Moon between 2027 and 2028 .
mental rejection remains about whether these plans will come to fruition , however . The European Space Agency ( ESA ) appears to have come out a affirmation in response to this proclamation , the latest in its " airt ESA Programmes In Response To Geopolitical Crisis " statements , ending cooperation on the Luna lunches .
" ESA will stop conjunctive activities with Russia on Luna-25 , -26 , and -27 " the agencyannounced . " As with ExoMars , the Russian hostility against Ukraine and the resulting sanction put in place represent a fundamental change of consideration and make it impossible for ESA to go through the planned lunar cooperation . "
European collaboration on theInternational Space Stationhas been stopped by Russia andjoint missions have been delayed , so few believe that these mission will in reality fly as originally intended .
[ H / T : The Moscow Times ]
clause updated to include ESA ’s subsequent answer and argument .
