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Luna-Resource

Russian spacecraft
Also known as: Luna 27
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Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Luna-Resource, Russian spacecraft that is designed to land on the Moon. Scheduled for launch about 2025, it will be Russia’s first mission to land on the Moon since the Luna 24 mission in August 1976. Luna-Resource weighs 1,250 kg (2,700 pounds). It is designed to study the effect of the solar wind on the lunar surface and the composition of the lunar soil, with a particular emphasis on determining the presence of water. It will...

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