Luna 25 - The First of a Series of Lunar Payload Services

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Luna 25 is the first of a series of lunar missions scheduled for the coming years, and is intended to operate and collect data for one year. Japan's ice base plans to launch the m one mission of its hecuto r programme in the final quarter of 20 22,. The i sbace lander includes cameras, a flight computer that uses artificial intelligence and a solid state battery - all of which will be tested under the extreme lunar conditions. It'll be a race to see which company reaches the lunar surface first.

In the next year, no fewer than seven missions are heading to the Moon. While NASA's Artemis programme might be stealing most of the limelight, the United States is just one of many nations and private companies that soon plan to launch lunar missions.

Although some of the agencies running these expeditions are providing scant details about the missions, it is hoped the they will provide streams of data about the Moon, heralding what scientists say could be a new golden age of lunar exploration.

This is an audio version of our Feature: These six countries are about to go to the Moon — here’s why

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