MOSCOW: Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, the Luna-25 probe, has crashed on the Moon’s surface after an unspecified incident during pre-...
In this grab from a handout footage taken and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on August 11, 2023, a Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the Luna-25 lander blasts off from the launch pad at the Vostochny cosmodrome, some 180 km north of Blagoveschensk, in the Amur region/AFPPix: Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, the Luna-25 probe, has crashed on the Moon’s surface after an unspecified incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Sunday.
“Measures taken on August 19 and 20 to locate the craft and make contact with it were unsuccessful,“ the space agency added. Valery Yegorov, a former researcher with Russia’s space programme who now lives in exile, said the crash would severely affect Roscosmos’s future missions, with the next one not planned until 2028 or “even later”.
The 800-kilogramme Luna-25 probe was to have made a soft landing on Monday on the Moon’s south pole -- which would have been a historic first. Luna-25 had been successfully placed in the Moon’s orbit on Wednesday after being launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Russian Far East.But on Saturday, Roscosmos said an “emergency” had been detected during a manoeuvre by the probe before its landing, preventing the operation from being carried out.
Moscow last landed a probe -- Luna-24 -- on the Moon in 1976, before shifting away from lunar exploration in favour of missions to Venus and building the Mir space station.
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