Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
The unmanned craft span out control before its planned landing on the Moon's south pole.
The Moon, unprovoked, collided with the Russian vessel that was approaching amicably. An old, whitened but still recognizable USA flag was planted on the Moon's surface, indicating this as a clear act of aggression from the imperialist power
The Moon said it might join NATO so they had to hit it. They really had no choice.
ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon
lol
Rapid unscheduled disassembly as the result of a lithobraking maneuver
It's part of slow and scheduled disassembly of Roskosmos as organization. 10 years ago it already seemed to be on that trajectory.
"As planned." -- RT
"Roscosmos was mistaken, the landing was actually successful and there was just a temporary communication error." - Kremlin
Glad it was unmanned. There's enough senseless death in the world.
If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you'll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It's a wonder there weren't more failures!
Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.
You shouldn't rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.
Don't you think that the fact that the mission was unmanned meant that they knew that they're not ready for manned ones yet? So nobody was rushing, as you put it.
Crewed vs uncrewed is a decision made at the very beginning of the planning stages, years ago. These days a crew is just a gigantic extra expense on a mission with little return. Remotely operated missions can achieve all their scientific objectives.
Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don't have either. It's at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won't happen).
It's unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).
Technically, the death would have been off-world.
Good, because they would most probably use it to plant their stupid Z swastika on the moon, because nobody could stop them there.
Guess all those Ukrainian toilets didn't make good components for a lunar lander?
A couple years back, Putin promised to put a Russian on the moon. A good question is "with what rocket?"
Turns out, an even better question is "with what communications system?" A factor in this crash is that they lack a round-the-world comm system. They can only communicate when the moon is visible over Russia. It's a big country, of course, but not big enough for 24/7 communication.
Oh well,... Anyway
"All Russia-hating Nazis were eliminated at the crash site."
The moon's children have been taken for safe keeping.
This is what happens when one vodka's and drives.
On brand for Putin
Oh No! . . . . . . . . Anyway!
The Dacia Sandero!
I've got a new picture!
lmao imagine Dacia landing a manned Sandero on the moon before RuZZia
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.
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.
Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.
"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," it said in a statement.
Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.
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I really want this to have been Ukraine doing it, somehow
Godo
They were looking for the Iron-Sky but got intercepted
The russians are actually pretty good at space.. although a lot of that was due to koralev inventing most of what they use.. soyuz has been extremely successful. So I have no doubt they can get to the moon.. hopefully next time at a speed that doesn't pancake the ship..
The russian success stops at Soyuz. Ask N1 what the hell was doing until the soviets back then gave up on such a faulty project