[Space] Russia's Moon Mission Has Failed

Luna-25 started off promising lyrics but ended in a catastrophic malfunction and failure.

Russia's first robotic moon mission in nearly 50 years ends in failure

Russia's Luna-25 probe crashed Saturday on the moon after a thruster firing went awry, cutting off communications and putting the spacecraft in the wrong orbit, the Russian space agency announced Sunday.

The misfire followed problems with an earlier orbit adjustment "burn," but this time around, contact was lost and flight controllers were unable to re-establish communications. Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, announced the failure via the Telegram social media platform.

"Due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse (rocket firing) from the calculated ones, the device (spacecraft) switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface," the Russian-language post said, according to Google Translate.

The failure was a major disappointment for the Russian space program, which was attempting to up its game amid renewed interest in the moon's south polar region where ice deposits may exist in permanently shadowed craters. Ice offers a potential in situ source of air, water and even hydrogen rocket fuel for future astronauts.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...h-landing-moon

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2396439.html

When I saw this headline it made me wonder about some Putin payback but at 90 years old anything is possible. India is trying this week to land on the lunar south pole hope to see them have success

Fuck Ruzzia and Putin

I believe the NASA term is "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" AKA RUD maneuver

A leading physicist and astronomer who served as a key consultant inVladimir Putin’s moon mission was hospitalised inMoscowafter Russia’s first lunar expedition in 47 years failed.

Mikhail Marov, 90,was rushed to hospital following a “sharp deterioration” in his health afterLuna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2396439.html

India's moon mission succeeded. Good for India.

Chandrayaan-3 rover rolls onto moon's surface as ecstatic India celebrates

NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The moon rover of India's Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said.

The spacecraftlandedon the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday, making India the first country to achieve this feat just days after Russia's Luna-25 failedin a similar mission

https://www.reuters.com/technology/s...tv-2023-08-24/