The automatic station Luna-25 was unable to perform a maneuver to transfer to a pre-landing orbit with the given parameters.
On the Russian automatic station Luna-25, an emergency situation arose during the transition to the pre-landing orbit. This was announced by Roskomos on Saturday, August 19.
“Today, in accordance with the flight program of Luna-25, at 14:10 an impulse was released to transfer the station to the pre-landing orbit. During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which would not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” the statement said. state corporations.
Roskosmos added that currently, specialists from the control group are analyzing the situation.
As you know, on August 11, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Luna-25 automatic station was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome. After that, the device makes two trajectory corrections. On Wednesday, August 16, the automatic station entered orbit near the moon.
It can be recalled that the launch of the Luna-25 apparatus was postponed several times. It was last reported that it should take place before the end of 2022.
It is also reported that Russia has suspended the development of a very powerful rocket for flights to the moon.
Source: korrespondent
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