here's everything you need to know about chandrayaan 3 competitor lunar-25
BY - rivanshi rakhrai
After a gap of nearly 50 years, Russia is planning to launch a lunar mission on 11 August
Russia wants to enter the race to become the first nation to land a rover on moon's south pole
India launched its Chandrayaan 3 on 14 July 2023
ISRO claimed that they are planning to land safely around 23 August 2023
Russian space agency Roscosmossaid its Luna-25 spacecraft will take five days to fly to the moon
It will spend 5-7 days in lunar orbit before descending on one of three possible landing sites near the pole
A timetable that implies it could match or narrowly beat Chandrayaan-3 to the moon's surface
Chandrayaan-3 has been designed to run experiments for two weeks, while Luna-25 will work on the moon for a year
With a mass of 1.8 tons and carrying 31 kg (68 pounds) of scientific equipment, Luna-25 will use a scoop to take rock samples from a depth of up to 15 cm (6 inches) to test for the presence of frozen water that could support human life
The launch, originally planned for October 2021, got delayed
The European Space Agency had planned to test its Pilot-D navigation camera by attaching it to Luna-25
Later broke off its ties to the project after Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year