According to the Russian Space Agency, at 9 a.m. Moscow time on July 11, the Russian Space Agency successfully test-launched the Polar Bear super-heavy Carrier Rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Within the next two months, it would choose an opportunity to carry out its crewed lunar landing mission.
After Ant Army Group announced that it had retrieved rock samples from the far side of the moon, global space exploration had become like a pot of boiling oil. The Russian Space Agency's news was like a ladle of water poured into that pot.
Back then, as one of the two superpowers, the Former Soviet Union had been forced to halt its lunar landing program due to problems with rocket technology and its own economy. Before the program could be restarted, the Former Soviet Union dissolved.
No one had expected that decades later, Russia, which had inherited most of the Former Soviet Union's legacy, would announce the successful test launch of a Carrier Rocket.
The already turbulent atmosphere exploded amid every kind of public discussion.
After Russia announced its lunar landing schedule, it triggered a chain reaction. Other countries followed suit, unveiling their own timelines for landing on the moon.
Reuters reported: Jan Woerner, director general of the European Space Agency, told this reporter that the European Space Agency's "Dawn Program" would officially begin its second phase in half a month, launching a lunar landing probe toward the moon.
Asahi Shimbun: An informed source from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency revealed to this reporter that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency would launch a lunar probe to land on the lunar surface within the next month, officially beginning the "Tsukuyomi Program."
New York Times: SpaceX and Israeli Aerospace Industries jointly announced that Israel's second lunar probe, Genesis 2, would launch aboard a Falcon 10