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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[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... They were kinda low-key racing India weren't they? Does this count? Did they win the race? I'm just glad it was unmanned

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not really. That probe was scheduled to go up 10 years ago - with collaboration from India. It's more a case of India going "F that, we're doing it ourselves now" - And russia lagging behind so much, they actually got lapped.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

India knew is was a clusterfuck from the beginning. They didn't want to be associated with that junk.

[–] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do find it hard to justify why we give India aid money when they have a space program.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What exactly is hard about it?