Mission record
Luna 25
Also known as Luna25, Luna-Glob-Lander, Luna-Glob-1
Russian Space Agency · Launched
Explore trajectoryFailed · Failure
Russia's first lunar mission since 1976, targeted at the south polar region and lost when communications ceased days after launch.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-Fregat
- Launch site
- Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia
- Countries
- Russia
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
Luna 25 launched, targeted at the south polar region of the Moon
Milestone
First transfer correction
Milestone
Second transfer correction
Orbit insertion
Entered lunar orbit
Milestone
Corrected lunar orbit
Milestone
Abnormal prelanding maneuver
Loss of contact
Communications were lost and the lander reportedly crashed on the surface
The page says the lander "reportedly crashed", which is recorded as the page states it.
Moon
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Luna 25 · Lander
Destinations: Moon
Luna 25 rocket stage · Other
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Luna 25 rocket stage: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data: JPL optical-fit stage solution; early flight is a backward model estimate · August 11, 2023 to February 26, 2024
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through August 27, 2026
- Luna 25 - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Luna 25 mission, spacecraft and orbital records — NSSDCATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Luna25 — actual2023 flight chronology, instruments and integration photographs — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- JPL Horizons Luna-25 STAGE orbit solution 19 — JPLEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context