General Director Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in his New Year greetings promised to launch the automatic interplanetary station (AMS)” Luna-25 “to the Moon. The corresponding statement of the manager was published by the state corporation.
“We hope that in 2021 we will send our first lander to the moon from here, from the Vostochny cosmodrome. For the first time in [the last] 45 years of our astronautics history, we are returning to the moon,” the manager said. >
Rogozin specified that the launch of Luna-25 will take place in October 2021 (on the medium Soyuz-2 rocket).
The manager also said that in 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) to the International Space Station (ISS) a new module “Science” (on the heavy Proton-M rocket) will be launched.
“We see off this year and welcome the new year 2021 with high hopes,” Rogozin said.
In 2021, according to RIA Novosti , Russia set an anti-record for the number of launches of space rockets, launching 17 media. The USSR carried out a similar number of launches in 1957-1961. Sequential decline in the number of Russian rockets launched in recent years head of Space Policy Institute Ivan Moiseev linked “mainly with the loss of the international space launch market.” p >
According to open data, the United States and China in 2020 spent more launches of space rockets than in 2019.