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The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.

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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I'm kinda okay with them spending money and resources on this. Better to spend resources doing this than building missiles and tanks. My only concern is that it may be serving a secondary purpose for testing new ICBM launch systems.

[-] zhunk@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Luna-25 launched on a Soyuz rocket, which is actually derived from an ICBM in the R-7 family. There aren't any active ICBMs in that family anymore, and it seems like their newer liquid fueled ICBMs use different fuels and engines. They could share avionics, structures, and upper stages, but the heavy lifting is done pretty differently.

*As far as I can tell from memory and a quick Wikipedia scan

[-] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Considering the R7 ICBM that this rocket is based off was first tested in the late 1950s I kinda doubt it's of much concern

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