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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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone in the country's space programme should honestly stay away from any windows or staircases right now.

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It'd be breaking news if they actually managed to land it successfully.

[–] Xeknos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe they shouldn't have conscriptoviched all their scientists.

[–] Marzepansion@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sad day for space science. Might not like Russian actions in geopolitics, but I can't not hate seeing a science mission in space fail.

Hopefully this doesn't set them back too much

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's unfortunate. I bet the public would've loved to hear a success story for once

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