Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - Luna-25 (Luna-Glob) - Vostochny - 10 August 2023 - 23:10 UTC

[owais.usmani]

Has the spacecraft communicated with ground after separation from Freget?

[s^3]

 Luna 25 could land on Moon as early as 21st Aug  ( situation in image ) as the site [ TEST_SITE] gets illuminated by sunlight.

CH3 touchdown site is still in shade.

[Svetoslav]

Has the spacecraft communicated with ground after separation from Freget?

Yes, Roscosmos confirmed it earlier in Telegram

[Nicolas PILLET]

Has the spacecraft communicated with ground after separation from Freget?

Some bad memory from 2011 ?

[spacexplorer]

Is this the only available site to know local time on Moon sites? Nothing official by ROSCOSMOS, NASA, ESA, JAXA or whatelse?

http://win98.altervista.org/space/exploration/moon/moontime.html

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/tskelso/status/1690039128300421120

CelesTrak has GP data for 1 object from the launch (2023-118) of Luna 25 atop a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome on Aug 10 at 2310 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/10/rus…. Data for the launch can be found at: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2023-118

[redliox]

Is there going to be a page for Luna-25 in the science threads?

[jcm]

Was there a NOTAM for the Soyuz third stage for this one?
Guessing South Atlantic perhaps around 10W 34S?

[B. Hendrickx]

https://twitter.com/tskelso/status/1690039128300421120

CelesTrak has GP data for 1 object from the launch (2023-118) of Luna 25 atop a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome on Aug 10 at 2310 UTC: spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/10/rus…. Data for the launch can be found at: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?INTDES=2023-118

SpaceTrack identifies this object (2023-118B) as the Fregat upper stage in heliocentric orbit. The orbit given by Celestrak would appear to be the parking orbit achieved after the first Fregat burn. The third stage was suborbital.

[zubenelgenubi]

Is there going to be a page for Luna-25 in the science threads?

Yes.  Stand by--not as much news/updates as for the other current/near future lunar missions.

Edit:
New space science section thread:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59370.0

[Alter Sachse]

MOSCOW, August 12 - RIA Novosti. All four side blocks of the first stage of the Luna-25 satellite rocket have been found in Khabarovsk Krai, the search has been completed, Governor Mikhail Degtyarev said in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the governor said that the stages of the Luna-25 satellite rocket were found after falling in the Khabarovsk region.

https://ria.ru/20230812/raketa-1889702920.html

[russianhalo117]

This is the final launch update for this thread.
The Fregat upper stage performed its Heliocentric orbital disposal and depletion burn yesterday followed by executing passivation and battery depletion and venting.


Luna-25 TCM-1 which was deemed required due to injection inaccuracies was scheduled for today at 16:00 Moscow Time. We are now awaiting the burn results as TCM-1 is the first engine firing of main propulsion system with a checkout burn just before TCM-1 start time.

https://russianspaceweb.com/luna-glob-flight.html
https://russianspaceweb.com/luna-glob-flight.html

[Satori]

Luna 25 - updates and discussion thread at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59370.0

[russianhalo117]

Luna-Glob's space tug to reenter

The Fregat upper stage No. 122-10 that delivered the ill-fated Luna-Glob lander into its trans-lunar trajectory and remained on a high elliptical orbit around the Earth was expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up on Feb. 26, 2024, according to calculations by the Keldysh Applied Mathematics Institute, IPM. The space tug was expected to hit the dense atmosphere at 18:43:09 UTC (21:43 Moscow Time, 1:43 p.m. EST) some 400 kilometers north/north-east of the American Samoa in the Southern Pacific Ocean. The prediction was made based on the tracking of the Fregat made with the help of IPM telescopes.

https://russianspaceweb.com/luna-glob-flight.html#2024