Russia plans to explore Mars and the Moon
The European Space Agency’s refusal to cooperate with Roscosmos on the joint ExoMars mission to Mars will not affect Russia’s plans to explore the “red planet.”
The head of the state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, stated this on the air of the Vesti FM radio station today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have a landing module. This is a key element of the Mars mission. And we will ensure its launch into Martian orbit and descent to the surface of Mars. I think with another partner, more reliable. I won’t mention my partner’s “surname” so as not to jinx it,” Rogozin said.
According to him, ground tests of the Luna-25 apparatus are now at the final stage.
“We plan to launch it in the third quarter of this year from the Vostochny cosmodrome. He must land at the south pole, we have never landed there. The USSR launched a lunar mission 46 years ago,” Rogozin said.
Luna 25 will have to take ice samples from the lunar surface. Then the Luna-26 observation orbiter and the Luna-27 heavy landing vehicle will be launched. The lunar program will be carried out jointly with China.
“We filmed all the European devices there. For some reason they began to blackmail us. A European woman with a cart makes it easier for a Russian mare. Because instead of these devices we will put our devices, for which there was no place before due to the fact that we were kind of friends with our European colleagues,” Rogozin said.
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