Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 17, 2023, 02:35 PM
'Chandrayaan 3' vs 'Luna 25': The world's eyes are on India's Chandrayaan mission. At the same time, everyone's eyes are also on Luna 25 of Russia. Along with India, Russia is also on the mission of the moon. The important thing is that Russia's Luna 25 will land on the moon two days before India's Chandrayaan 3. Russia's vehicle will also land on the southern part of the moon like India's vehicle. In this way Russia will be our neighbor on the moon.Regarding Luna-25, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has said that Russia's lunar spacecraft has entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday. Luna-25 will orbit the Moon for about five days. Then on August 21, it will change its course for a soft landing on the South Pole of the Moon. On the other hand, India's Chandrayaan-3 will make a soft landing on the South Pole after two days i.e. on 23 August.The Russian vehicle ran after the Indian vehicleChandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Andhra Pradesh. It reached the Moon's orbit earlier this month. While Russia launched Luna 25 on August 11, it took a shorter route to land on the Moon's south pole. No space agency in the world knows about this route.Luna 25 mission part of Russia's strategyAnatoly Zak, who monitors Russian space programs, says that earlier Russia wanted to complete the mission of Luna 25 with the help of European countries, but European countries pulled out of this mission amidst the war with Ukraine. For this reason, Russia alone has sent its vehicle Luna 25 to the Moon on its own. This is the reason why Luna-25 is not just a mission but a big part of Russian strategy.