Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in 47 years, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes.
The spacecraft's primary landing zone was a region called Boguslawsky Crater, but there were two backup landing spots also available: Southwest of Manzini Crater, and south of Pentland A Crater.
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft is seen during prelaunch preparations. The probe crashed into the moon this weekend. Aside from hunting water ice, Luna 25's main science goals included examining the regolith and rocks around it, looking at the wispyRussian aerospace company NPO Lavochkin designed and built the lander, which had two major parts: a landing platform with a propulsion system; and landing gear, including a velocity and range meter for use during landing.
The loss of Luna-25 could be a major blow to Russia's plans to fly a series of moon missions and its effort to develop a permanentRoscosmos plans to follow Luna-25 with a lunar orbiter, called Luna-26, and then two more landing missions: Luna-27, which will send a drilling rig to the lunar surface; and Luna-28, a sample-collection mission that aims to return material from the moon's polar regions to Earth.
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