Russia to head to the moon in 2015: New mission set to land robotic probes on the lunar surface
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 16, 2013 22:26
Russia is set to send an unmanned probe to the moon in 2015.
The craft, called Luna-Glob, or Moon-Globe, will be carried by the first rocket to blast off from a new facility that Russia is building in its far eastern Amur region.
It will consist of an orbital module and a probe that would land on the moon and beam back information about samples it takes from the surface.
State-run news agency Ria Novosti has said that it will carry dust monitors and plasma sensors to sense high-energy cosmic rays as well.
It will be the first Russian trip to the moon since the 1970s
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a plan last month to spend 2.1 trillion roubles ($70 billion) on space industry development in 2013-2020, to pursue projects to explore the moon and Mars, among other things
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