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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[–] SirMechsALot@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They rushed a project to compete with NASA's VIPER rover and just wanted to be first.

[–] GreatFord@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

They were also trying to be the Indian team, who are taking a longer time using gravitational whip to send their mission to the Moon’s pole.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were actually always pretty good at unmanned missions. This was the same design from the 1970s.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Russians have a bunch of crashed spacecraft on Mars and no successful Mars landings.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

The Soviets were also the only ones to successfully put a lander on Venus, and accomplished this in the 70s. They were a powerhouse when it came to unmanned missions: even with more primative control systems they had to work with.

Of course with the fall of the USSR all the smart people behind those successes could leave, so ...

[–] SirMechsALot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah historically we've used them a ton for collaborations in space architecture. I can't share too much but my team has worked with them, before my time, and they refused to make any advancements in certain systems. Since then collaboration has been incredibly difficult but not because of Russia's engineers.

[–] greavous@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is basically the rough history of our planets space exploring ventures. American/russia one upping each other.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it worked quite well during Soviet times.

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Laika is still up there and happy...