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☆ Race for moon resources has begun, says Russia's space chief after failed lunar mission
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The race to explore and develop the moon's resources has begun and Russia must remain a player despite the failure of its first lunar mission in 47 years, the head of Russia's space agency Roskosmos said on Monday. Russia's Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon on Saturday after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme. "Today it is also of a practical value because, of course, the race for the development of the natural resources of the moon has begun. And in the future, the moon will become a platform for deep space exploration, an ideal platform." Russia has said it will launch further lunar missions and then explore the possibility of a joint Russian-China crewed mission and even a lunar base.

Persons: Roskosmos, Russia's Luna, Yury Borisov, Vladimir Soldatkin, Gareth Jones Organizations: NASA, Artemis Accords, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, Handout, Russian, China, United States

Russia's state space corporation, Roskosmos, said an "abnormal situation" occurred as mission control tried to move the craft into a pre-landing orbit at 11:10 GMT on Saturday, ahead of a planned touchdown slated for Monday. "During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to be performed with the specified parameters," Roskosmos said in a short statement. Russia has not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug. 21, according to Russian space officials. It was not immediately clear from official sources how serious the "abnormal situation" was - and whether or not Moscow could save the situation.

Persons: Luna, Roskosmos, Yuri Gagarin, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexander Ivanov, Guy Faulconbridge, Christina Fincher Organizations: REUTERS, Kremlin, India, Thomson Locations: Handout, MOSCOW, Moscow, Soviet, Russia, China, United States, Ukraine

☆ Factbox: Russia's Luna-25 moon mission fails: what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LUNA-25It was Russia's first moon mission since the Soviet Union's Luna-24 returned with samples from the moon in 1976. The lander was boosted out of Earth's orbit toward the moon a little over an hour later. Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug. 21, according to Russian space officials. Eventually, in the early 2010s, Russia settled upon the idea of the Luna-25 mission to the south pole of the moon.

Persons: Luna, Roskosmos, Yuri Gagarin, Leonid Brezhnev, Vladimir Putin, Guy Faulconbridge, Philippa Fletcher, Christina Fincher Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Soyuz, Luna, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, Soviet, Vostochny cosmodrome, Moscow, RUSSIA, Soviet Union

SummaryCompanies Russia moon mission failsLuna-25 crashes into the moonFailure is a blow to Russian space prestigeSoviet space veteran: Luna-25 was my last hopeMOSCOW, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme. Russia's state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft at 11:57 GMT on Saturday after a problem as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit. Though moon missions are fiendishly difficult, and many U.S. and Soviet attempts have failed, Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. Russian officials had hoped that the Luna-25 mission would show Russia can compete with the superpowers in space despite its post-Soviet decline and the vast cost of the Ukraine war. "This was perhaps the last hope for me to see a revival of our lunar program," he said.

Persons: Luna, Roskosmos, Yuri Gagarin, Leonid Brezhnev, Anatoly Zak, Zak, Mikhail Marov, Marov, Guy Faulconbridge, Christina Fincher, Frances Kerry Organizations: Kremlin, India, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, YP Rajesh, Thomson Locations: Russia, MOSCOW, Moscow, Soviet, Europe, Tenerife, China, United States, Handout, Ukraine, Soviet Union, India, Delhi

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft produces first results, space agency says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, August 17, 2023. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 19 (Reuters) - The Russian spacecraft on a mission to the moon's south pole has produced its first results and they are being analysed, Russia's national space agency Roskosmos said on Saturday. The agency also posted images of the moon's Zeeman crater taken from the Luna-25 spacecraft, which is scheduled to make a landing on the south pole on Monday after circling the Earth's only natural satellite for five days. The Zeeman crater is the third deepest in the moon's southern hemisphere, the agency said, measuring 190 km in diameter and eight km in depth. The Luna-25 entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday, the first Russian spacecraft to do so since 1976.

Persons: Roskosmos, Luna, Gareth Jones, Jane Merriman Organizations: REUTERS, NASA, Thomson Locations: Handout, Russian

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023. The Luna-25 entered the moon's orbit at 11:57 a.m. (0857 GMT), Russia's space corporate Roskosmos said. India's Chandrayaan-3 entered the moon's orbit earlier this month ahead of a planned touchdown on the south pole of the moon later this month. No Russian spacecraft has entered lunar orbit since Luna-24, the Soviet Union's 1976 moon mission, according to Anatoly Zak, the creator and publisher of www.RussianSpaceWeb.com which tracks Russian space programmes. "Entering lunar orbit is absolutely critical for the success of this project," Zak told Reuters.

Persons: Luna, India's, Anatoly Zak, Zak, Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Cawthorne, Bernadette Baum Organizations: 2.1b, Vostochny, REUTERS, Rights, NASA, Thomson Locations: Amur, Russia, Soviet

☆ Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit -space agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout via REUTERS/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia's lunar spacecraft entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday, a major step towards the country's ambition of being the first to land on the moon's south pole in the search for frozen water. The Luna-25 entered the moon's orbit at 11:57 a.m. (0857 GMT), Russia's space corporate Roskosmos said. India's Chandrayaan-3 entered the moon's orbit earlier this month ahead of a planned touchdown on the south pole of the moon later this month. No Russian spacecraft has entered lunar orbit since Luna-24, the Soviet Union's 1976 moon mission, according to Anatoly Zak, the creator and publisher of www.RussianSpaceWeb.com which tracks Russian space programmes. "Entering lunar orbit is absolutely critical for the success of this project," Zak told Reuters.

☆ Russia offers BRICS partners a module on its planned space station
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A view shows a model of a new Russian orbital space station at the international military-technical forum Army-2022 at Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre in the Moscow region, Russia August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File PhotoJuly 24 (Reuters) - The head of Russia's space agency on Monday suggested Moscow's partners in the BRICS group - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - could build a module for its planned orbital station, the Interfax news agency reported. Reporting from a BRICS meeting on space cooperation in Hermanus, South Africa, Interfax said it was "assumed" that the first module of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) would be launched in 2027, with construction completed by 2032. By then, the International Space Station - one of the last forums of cooperation between Washington and Moscow as Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent relations to a post-Cold War low - is likely to have been decommissioned. Roskosmos said last August that its new space station would consist of six modules and a service platform, to accommodate up to four cosmonauts, and be built in two phases.

Persons: Maxim, Yuri Borisov, Roskosmos, Borisov, Kevin Liffey, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Patriot Congress, Exhibition, REUTERS, Russian, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, Brazil, India, China, South Africa, Hermanus, Washington, Ukraine

☆ Russia to launch Soyuz rocket to bring back cosmonauts from ISS after leak
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz rocket on Feb. 20 to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule sprang a coolant leak last month. They will return to Earth on Soyuz MS-23," Roskosmos said. "The launch of the Soyuz MS-23 will be on Feb. 20, 2023 in an unmanned mode," Roskosmos said. The MS-23 launch had earlier been planned for mid-March. The U.S. agency said last month it was exploring whether SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft could offer an alternative ride home for some ISS crew members, in case Russia was unable to launch another Soyuz.

☆ Robotic arm to inspect leaky Soyuz spacecraft, Russia says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A 17-metre-long Canadian-made robotic arm on the International Space Station will inspect a docked Soyuz spacecraft after a leak was noticed just before a spacewalk last week, Russia's state space corporation said on Sunday. After the spacewalk was called off on Dec. 15, Roscosmos said there had been damage to the outer skin of an instrument assembly compartment of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule. Roscosmos said cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Anna Kikina were enjoying a day of rest on the Space Station and would then watch the final of the World Cup. "The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will be inspected with cameras of the SSRMS, the Space Station Remote Manipulator System," Roskosmos said in a statement. Preparations are underway for the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and Russia's space agency said that launch could be accelerated if needed.

☆ Agenția spațială rusă vinde un modul Soyuz care a adus 3 cosmonauți de pe Stația Spațială Internațională în 2018
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-23 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Agenția spațială rusă vinde un modul de coborâre Soyuz care a ajutat la revenirea pe Terra a trei astronauți de pe Stația Spațială Internațională. Anunțul de vânzare a fost postat pe Twitter, dar nu este specificat și prețul. „V-ați gândit vreodată să aveți un modul de coborâre Soyuz MS adevărat, ca piesă în colecția sau expoziția dvs.? Naveta rusă Soyuz MS-08, lansată pe 21 martie 2018 de la Cosmodromul Baikonur, a dus pe Stația Spațială Internațională trei membri ai echipajului expediției ISS-55/56 - cosmonautul Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev și astronauții NASA Andrew Feustel și Richard Arnold. La 4 octombrie 2018, modulul de coborâre scos acum la vânzare a aterizat înKazahstan, aducându-i pe cei 3 astronauți înapoi pe Pământ.

Persons: Oleg, NASA Andrew Feustel, Richard Arnold . Organizations: Terra, Stația Spațială, Stația, NASA

☆ Rusia se întoarce pe Lună din acest an cu o nouă misiune automată
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +4 min

Statele Unite ale Americii au anunţat că reiau misiunile cu echipaje umane pe Lună în cadrul programului spaţial Artemis, din care fac parte şi numeroase misiuni robotice. Rusia apelează la tradiţia acestor programe de explorare şi va continua seria de misiuni Luna ce a fost abandonată în 1976. De asemenea, această misiune îşi propune forarea în solul selenar pentru a extrage mostre de apă îngheţată şi alte materiale selenare, fără a le schimba starea de agregare. Sistemul de forare este de asemenea conceput de ESA.Ultimele două misiuni din seria Luna nu au încă orizonturi clare pentru lansare. "Este vorba de o misiune de aducere a unor mostre, însă este o misiune diferită de cele realizate până acum.

Persons: Agenţia, Lev Zeleni, Artemis, Selenei Organizations: Academia Naţională, Apollo, Rusia, Luna, Terra Locations: Rusia, Sud, rus, Statele Unite ale Americii, China, India, Israel, Statele Unite, selenară

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