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Fuck the Russian government, but you still hate to see something like this happen.
No, I actually don't. This was never going to be scientifically meaningful. It was nothing but a vanity project that went exactly how it deserved to.
Is this false?
Is the russia gov reviving the 'Luna' mission name and mission type after decades coincidence when russia is heavily sanctioned by the west and in need of showing it is a industrial and scientific powerhouse? At a time it is according to its own gov 'at war with NATO', just like during the cold war?
Doing exploration & science when you go is a given, but it is disingenuous saying that Russia started this mission out of pure scientific interest. The same can of course be said of US moon or Mars programs.
The difference however is this one failed its obvious primary objective: showing that Russia = strong, and that at a time that Russia is desperate for a succes, not another example that it is a shithole.
There's a lot of reasons, including passing on knowledge from the people who did Luna 24.
I'm also pretty sure Luna 25 has been worked on since at least 2017, not to mention that Luna just means moon.
I doubt it since India has a mission right now to do the same thing.
It's not false, but from Russia it's worthless. China and India have actually competent missions to the same region planned, and the US's Artemis 3 crewed mission is also planning to land in that region by 2026. This was absolutely an incompetent rush job attempt to beat everybody else to the punch in the name of "Russian Superiority".
They also had announced that they wouldnโt be sharing any of the scientific data gathered
Coming from the Russian government, who cares? They're so incompentent and dishonest that none of their results could be trusted.
It's not, but they already said they weren't going to share any results with the international community, so nothing of scientific value was lost anyways
There's nothing vain about looking for rocket fuel outside the gravity well, the only question is "why now?"
Based on what I know about Russia they would probably claim moon as part of Russia and then bomb the 1969 moon landing site with cluster munitions. Fuck em
No, that would be what the US had planned to do. This was right after spudink as to one up the USSR.
Nah, I don't. Fuck russia.
Fuck corruption.