Russia to Launch Lunar Probe, Deepen Space Links With Belarus: Vladimir Putin

Pelican Press · March 20

Russia to Launch Lunar Probe, Deepen Space Links With Belarus: Vladimir ******

Russia will launch a lunar probe later this year and deepen cooperation with Belarus on space infrastructure and technology, Russian President Vladimir ****** said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, ****** recalled ******* successes in space and said no sanctions on Russia could halt its progress.

What Russia calls its “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine triggered a barrage of sanctions from Western countries including restrictions on scientific funding and cooperation.

****** said Russia would develop a new generation transport spaceship and technologies for nuclear energy in space.

He also said it would launch a probe called Luna-25 to the moon in the third quarter of this year.

Russia would work with Belarus on infrastructure that guarantees the countries independent access to space, said ******, adding that he’d asked Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, to train a Belarusian for flight on a Russian spacecraft.

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