More missions are under consideration as well. Luna-28 could carry a small rover and send moon rocks back to Earth; Luna-29 could carry a larger rover along the lines of the Soviet Lunokhod vehicles.
In April 2025, speaking at the meeting of the BRICS space agencies heads in Brazil, a newly appointed head of Roskosmos Dmitry Bakanov re-confirmed the 2023 roadmap for launching six lunar robotic missions, including Luna-26 and Luna-29 orbiters, plus a pair of Luna-27 landers, as well as prospective sample return and rover missions, known as Luna-28 and Luna-30, respectively. Bakanov also re-iterated Russian plans to deploy a power station on the surface of the Moon (INSIDER CONTENT) within a joint lunar exploration effort with China. (INSIDER CONTENT) However, no launch dates were cited for any of these missions at the time, hinting the budgetary and technical uncertainty around the program.
In early June 2025, NPO Lavochkin said that the Luna-Resurs-1 (Luna-27) project had been included into the Nauka Federal Project (INSIDER CONTENT) then still under development for a period from 2026 to 2035. (INSIDER CONTENT) According to that document presented at the expanded meeting of the Federation Council for Economic Policy in the same month, 129.7 billion rubles ($1.65 billion) were to be spent on two lunar missions (presumably, Luna-Resurs orbiter (INSIDER CONTENT) and a lander) by 2030, and a total of 198.1 billion rubles ($2.53 billion) would cost four missions (including Luna-28 and Luna-29) by 2036.
9. Now to the plans for the space exploration, in particular, for the Moon program with updated schedule: • #Luna26 orbiter - 2028• #Luna27А and #Luna27B landers - 2029 and 2030• #Luna29 orbiter - 2032• #Luna28 lander, soil sample return - 2034• #Luna30 rover -2036 ⤵️
