LAUNCH OF RUSSIA’S LUNA-25 LUNAR LANDER, Aug 10, 2023, Vostochny, Russia, 7:10 pm EDT (Aug 11, 02:10 am Moscow Time)

Update, August 7:  Russia has now confirmed the launch date and time as August 10, 23:10:57 UTC, which is 7:10:57 pm EDT.

Finally Roscosmos announced the launch time of #Luna25 officially (which we knew for almost a month).
Rollout – August 8
Launch – August 10, 23:10:57 UTC.
Soyuz 2.1b is assembled with the head part. The mission’s press kit is here (VPN may be required): https://t.co/vCrBxPbMfE pic.twitter.com/ViDqRKTYMS

— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) August 7, 2023

Update, August 5:  Roscosmos still has not announced a launch date or time, but Anatoly Zak at RussianSpaceWeb.com lists it as August 11, 2023 at 02:10:57 Moscow Time, which is August 10, 7:10:57 pm EDT. The launch on a Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket is from Russia’s newest launch site at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia.

Original Entry: Russia is planning to launch the Luna-25 lunar lander, its first lunar spacecraft since Luna-24 in 1976, in August 2023. Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, has not officially announced the launch date, but experts who follow the Russian space program expect it on August 11.

Luna-Glob (Luna-25) lander was delivered to Vostochny in preparation for launch to the South Polar region of the Moon on August 11: https://t.co/BBlo4IChs7 pic.twitter.com/5R59qdFe5H

— Anatoly Zak (@RussianSpaceWeb) July 11, 2023

Luna-25 is also called Luna-Glob and is designed to land at the Moon’s South Pole.

More information about Luna-25 is available on  Anatoly Zak’s RussianSpaceWeb.com.

More information about this launch will be posted here when it is available.