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— Russia’s first lunar mission in decades has ended in failure with its Luna 25 spacecraft crashing into the moon’s surface.
The incident, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions, happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was interrupted.
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost touch with Luna 25 on Saturday around 2:57 p.m. Moscow time.
“The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not yield any results,” the space agency reported.
According to a “preliminary analysis,” Luna-25 “switched to an off-design orbit” before the collision, Roscosmos said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.
A specially formed commission will investigate the reasons for the loss of Luna 25, the agency added.
The news comes a day after the spacecraft reported an “emergency situation” as it was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit, according to Roscosmos.
“During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos shared in a Telegram post on Saturday. Source
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Mikail Marov, 90, suffered a 'sharp deterioration' in his health following the crash
The Luna-25 mission ended in failure after the spacecraft span out of control
A top astronomer who worked on Russia's failed space expedition has been rushed to hospital following the Luna-25 spacecraft's crash into the surface of the Moon.
Mikhail Marov, 90, who was described as a key consultant to the mission, suffered a 'sharp deterioration' in his health following the crash.
The Luna-25 unmanned space vessel span out of control and crashed into the surface of the Moon on 19 August during Russia's first lunar expedition in 47 years. Marov's health condition arose after he called for an investigation into the expedition's failure.
Russian sources are already blaming endemic corruption inside the country's space agency for the failure of the mission. Source
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