Russia will launch its first lunar landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday in a race with India to the south pole of the Moon - a potential source of water to support a future human presence there.
The launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 3,450 miles east of Moscow, will take place four weeks afterRough terrain makes a landing there difficult, but the south pole is a prized destination because scientists believe it may hold significant quantities of ice that could be used toRussian space agency Roscosmos said that its Luna-25 spacecraft would take five days to fly to the Moon and then spend five to seven days in lunar orbit before descending on one of three possible landing sites near...
Roscosmos said the two missions would not get in each other’s way because they have different landing areas planned. ‘There is no danger that they interfere with each other or collide. There is enough space for everyone on the moon,’ said the agency.Chandrayaan-3 is due to run experiments for two weeks, while Luna-25 will work on the Moon for a year. In April, Japan’s ispace
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