Humiliation for Putin as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft ‘crashes into moon’

Aug 20, 2023 at 12:04 PM
Humiliation for Putin as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft ‘crashes into moon’

Russia introduced that their Luna-25 spacecraft, which was launched earlier this month, skilled a crash into the moon.

According to Russia‘s area company Roscosmos, the unmanned robotic lander collided with the moon because of coming into an uncontrolled orbit.

The incident follows a earlier announcement of an “abnormal situation” that Russian specialists had been investigating on the previous Saturday.

Russia‘s aspiration was for the robotic to assemble rock and dirt samples for a span of a 12 months subsequent to its anticipated landing on the moon’s southern pole on Monday.

But the area company disclosed that communication with the spacecraft was severed after encountering unspecified difficulties throughout the pre-landing orbit setup.

Roscosmos stated in an announcement: “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon.”