An emergency situation occurred during the transition of Luna-25 to the pre-landing orbit

During the transition of the automatic station “Luna-25” to the pre-landing orbit, an abnormal situation occurred, due to which it was not possible to perform a maneuver with the specified parameters. About it informed Telegram channel of Roscosmos.

“Today, in accordance with the Luna-25 flight program, at 14:10 an impulse was issued to transfer the station to a pre-landing orbit. During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” the report says.

Now experts are analyzing the situation.

Luna-25 was launched on the night of August 11 from the Vostochny cosmodrome. At 03:30 Moscow time, Roskosmos reported that the automatic station was put on a flight path to the Moon and separated from the Fregat upper stage. The first flight path correction was made on 12 August and the second on 14 August. On August 16, Luna-25 entered the orbit of an artificial satellite of the Moon. It is expected that the landing north of the Boguslavsky crater will take place on August 21.

On August 17, Luna-25 took the first image of the lunar surface, which shows the Zeeman crater on the far side of the Earth satellite. Today, Roscosmos said that the bottom of the crater, as it turned out, is dotted with smaller craters.

“Luna-25” became the first lunar mission in the history of modern Russia, in which the station will make a soft landing in the region of the South Pole of the Moon. There she will collect lunar soil and deliver it to Earth. The project also plans to launch an automatic probe, the orbital part of which will make it possible to conduct remote research and select suitable sites for subsequent descent vehicles. The previous apparatus, Luna-24, was launched in 1976. The first images of the side of the Moon invisible from the Earth were obtained in 1959, they were made by the Luna-3 station.