Russian scientists have uncovered some of the secrets of the Russian lunar program. It turned out base on an artificial Earth satellite will work on plutonium, which is a great advantage of the Russian Federation to Europe and the United States.
As outlined by the Director of the space research Institute of RAS lion Green, Russian lunar landing stations will later be used as a source of electricity not only solar panels but also plutonium. According to him, the nuclear "battery" is planned to equip the spacecraft Luna-25" and "Moon-27", which will fit on the poles of the moon.
"Weapons-grade plutonium... I am a very big supporter apply it, and in all of our lunar stations will be used isotope informant radiation. We don't have enough solar energy" - quoted Green TASS.
With all of this, Director of the University space research RAS recalled that the Russian plutonium was used on Board the Chinese moon Rover "Jade rabbit". Taking into account the opinion of the researcher, the use of isotopic sources of energy is great superiority of the Russian Federation to Europe and the USA, whose distinctive "strange shyness all of ionizing radiation".
As wrote earlier Days.Roux, NGO them. Lavochkin at the moment creates a station "Luna-25" (project "Luna-glob"), "Moon-26" and "Moon-27" (both - project "Luna-Resource"), and the UNIVERSITY space research prepares their scientific equipment. It is expected that the station will go into space in 2017, 2018 and 2019. With all this "Moon-25" and "Moon-27" will have to work out for the year, and "moon-26" ahead two years in orbit, the natural satellite of Earth.