Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Luna 27
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) is targeting 2028 for Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M carrying Luna 27 from Cosmodrome Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation, Russia. Launch Library files only the year, so the date is a placeholder. The date is still provisional and can move.
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FLIGHT PLAN
There's no launch window filed yet. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.
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MISSION BRIEF
Luna 27 (also named Luna-Resurs 1) is a planned lunar lander mission by Roscosmos to send a lander to the South Pole–Aitken basin, an area on the far side of the Moon. The purpose is to prospect for minerals, volatiles (nitrogen, water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, hydrogen, methane and sulfur dioxide, and lunar water ice in permanently shadowed areas of the Moon and investigate the potential use of these natural lunar resources. On the long term, Russia considers building a crewed base on the Moon's far side that would bring scientific and commercial benefits. The lander will feature 15 science instruments that will analyse the regolith, plasma in the exosphere, dust, and seismic activity. The payload will include a sampling drill.
SOURCE: LAUNCH LIBRARY 2 // THE SPACE DEVS
LAUNCH CORRIDOR
- Due east
- The lowest inclination a direct launch from here can reach is 51.9°. That’s this pad’s own latitude. Flying east also gets the most free speed from Earth’s rotation.
- Due south
- The polar corridor, at 90° inclination, passes over both poles. It gets no help from Earth’s spin, so the same rocket can carry less.
Drag the globe to turn it. The shading is the real terminator, and it moves.
A globe of the Earth centred on Cosmodrome Site 1S at latitude 51.88 degrees north, longitude 128.33 degrees east. Two curved lines leave the pad. The solid gold line runs due east and marks the lowest orbital inclination a direct launch from this site can reach, 51.9 degrees, equal to the pad’s latitude of 51.9 degrees. The dashed cyan line runs due south and marks the polar corridor at 90 degrees inclination. The darkened part of the globe is the night side. The surface wind is from 67° at 4 km/h. That's the cyan arrow at the pad.
LAUNCH SITE
Cosmodrome Site 1S
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation, Russia
OBSERVED 2026-11-11 11:45:00Z // OPEN-METEO (CC BY 4.0) // GENERAL CONDITIONS, NOT LAUNCH CRITERIA
Minimum direct inclination 52°. This pad is 52° north of the equator, so a direct launch can't reach an orbit inclined less than 52°. An orbit of inclination i never passes over latitudes beyond ±i. Getting to an equatorial orbit, which geostationary satellites need, takes a 52° plane change at some point in the flight. Inclinations of 52° and up are reachable straight off the pad. The ground here moves east at about 287 m/s with Earth's spin. That's 465 m/s at the equator, falling with the cosine of latitude. A launch due east keeps that head start.
DATUM WGS-84 // EQUIRECTANGULAR PROJECTION // ORBIT FIGURES DERIVED FROM THE PUBLISHED LATITUDE
Open this pad in a mapPAD CONDITIONS
SURFACE WIND @ 10 M
4km/h
Blowing from the east-north-east, bearing 67 degrees
GUSTING
8km/h
Overcast
SOURCE: OPEN-METEO CC BY 4.0
The observed figures are general weather at the coordinates of Cosmodrome Site 1S. They aren’t the launch rules. The operator and the range write those for each mission, and they cover things this forecast doesn’t carry, like electric fields, cloud layers higher up and winds along the rocket’s path. Only the operator publishes them. Wind often stops a countdown, but no number here is a limit for this flight. Nothing here is a go or no-go call. No operator figure was published for this attempt.