Luna-Resource

Luna-Resource, also called Luna 27, Russian spacecraft that is designed to land on the Moon. Scheduled for launch about 2025, it will be Russia’s first mission to land on the Moon since the Luna 24 mission in August 1976.

Luna-Resource weighs 1,250 kg (2,700 pounds). It is designed to study the effect of the solar wind on the lunar surface and the composition of the lunar soil, with a particular emphasis on determining the presence of water. It will carry a camera, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, a thermometer, and a mass spectrometer to study samples that will be collected by Luna-Resource’s robotic arm.