US EditionRussia Delays Lunar Missions
Sergei Chernyshev said Luna-28, Luna-29 and Luna-30 are now set for 2032, 2034 and 2036, according to Interfax.
- On Tuesday, Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President Sergei Chernyshev announced that Russia has postponed the Luna-28, Luna-29, and Luna-30 moon missions into the 2030s, marking a significant setback to the nation's lunar exploration program.
- Chernyshev disclosed the delays hours after astronauts aboard the American Artemis 2 mission traveled deeper into space than any human previously, underscoring the widening gap between Russia and the United States in lunar exploration.
- Under the revised schedule, Luna-29 is set for 2032, Luna-30 for 2034, and Luna-28 for 2036, with missions focused on testing technologies and building elements of lunar bases.
- Roscosmos has not commented on this latest postponement, which follows the 2023 crash of the unmanned Luna-25 craft and reflects a pattern of recent delays plaguing Russia's space program.
- Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's once-mighty space program has declined steadily, and the nation now lags behind the United States and China in the race to develop the moon's natural resources.
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Russia revises launch timeline for Luna-28, Luna-29, and Luna-30 spacecraft
Russia has revised the launch timeline for the Luna-28, Luna-29, and Luna-30 spacecraft, according to the Russian business daily Kommersant, which cited a presentation by Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President Sergei Chernyshev at a meeting of the academy.
Russia has postponed the launch of three of its lunar missions, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. The launch of the Russian spacecraft Luna-28, Luna-29 and Luna-30 has been postponed to 2032-2036, Interfax quoted Sergei Chernyshev, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as saying. The postponement was announced just as Russia's space rival, the United States, had orbited the moon. Qubit wrote about the return to the moon in t…
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