The Russian lunar mission failed after the Luna 25 spacecraft went out of control and crashed on the Moon. It was the first Russian lunar mission since the Soviet Luna 24 returned with samples from the Moon in 1976 year.
According to Reuters, Russian state space company Roscosmos said there was an “abnormal situation” when the mission control center tried to put the spacecraft into a pre-landing orbit.
“During the work at the automatic station, an emergency situation arose that did not allow the maneuver to be carried out according to the planned parameters,” the Roscosmos message said, circulated on Telegram.
Problems aboard the ship arose when at 14:10 Moscow time (12:10 Lisbon time) the engines launched Luna-25 into a pre-lunar landing orbit, writes the Spanish news agency EFE.
The probe was supposed to land on the lunar surface on August 21, two days before the Indian probe Chandrayaan-3, which launched on July 14.
Luna 25, the successor to the Soviet Luna 24, the third spacecraft to explore the lunar surface in August 1976, hopes to find water in the form of ice on the Moon.
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