The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader
The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader
"There is no place for modernization, there is only the mission of survival."
Oh come on, that's not very accurate: He's a bad leader in every regard, let's not downplay the breadth of how shitty he is.
The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous
spaceleaderFTFY.
Everything this guy touches turns to shit, so no surprise here.
"space leader" sounds like a neat title.
No title can beat the best job title in the world: Planetary Defense Officer, the person who leads the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) at NASA
It would be, as long as they weren't horrifically bad at it.
I'd like to know exactly what Putin is thinking will come of all of this. Is he so deluded and surrounded by yes men that he genuinely thinks he's doing a good thing? Or is it just standard rampant greed and bullying?
Yes. This is the downfall of every powerful man who surrounds himself with yes men. His advisers probably told him that if they invade Ukraine, the leadership would flee and he could install a puppet. They didn't expect him to actually do it.
There's been a lot of chatter that he is seriously ill (I've heard cancer or Parkinson, but who knows what it really is) - people who've analyzed the recent photos say they see swelling in his hands/wrists which could indicate the use of strong steroids which are known to alter thought processes that could explain his recent believe that he could win a conflict with Ukraine and beat India to the south pole of the moon (concurrently no less).
I'm honestly impressed that russia admitted the landing failed at all, I figured they would have simply kept quiet. I guess they know we have strong enough telescopes to see the crash site? Who knows lol
Russia can't even build the soyuz right anymore. They keep sprining leaks. Wtf man.
the soviets managed to land on Venus and send photos back but this clown version of russia can't even land a trivial lander on the moon.
Russia is literally a clown state these days
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Saturday, the Russian space program lost the Luna 25 spacecraft, a relatively small vehicle that was due to land on the Moon this week.
But unlike NASA, China, India, and several companies in the United States and Japan, the Luna 25 effort does not presage the coming of a golden era of exploration for Russia.
Rather, it is more properly seen as the last gasp of a dying empire, an attempt by the modern state of Russia, and President Vladimir Putin, to revive old glories.
However, there have been some issues of late with leaks and other problems that have raised serious questions about quality control and the ability of the Russians to manufacture these vehicles.
Before the launch of Luna 25, Putin made it clear that this mission was important for Russia as a signal that the country was returning to great power status.
Sometimes such strength has been difficult to project, especially since Russia is flying the same vehicles as it did during Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as the Soviet ruler, and has only flown to the International Space Station for a quarter of a century.
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Shame about all those scientists who are about to jump out of Windows.
I think this is just the first part
All those rocket scientists better start running for the border.
Disastrous space-leader or disastrous-space leader?
Russia was flying US Astronauts to the ISS for a decade. The USA has a history of failed launches. This article is just propaganda.
Yeah, how about you read the damn article? This is mentioned:
The crew vehicle served the Soviet space program through 1991 and since then has been a mainstay for the country's large space corporation, Roscosmos. The Soyuz is a hardy, generally reliable vehicle that NASA counted on for crew transport from 2011 to 2020, after the space shuttle's retirement and before SpaceX's Crew Dragon came into service.
The Soyuz spacecraft, as well as a lot of the country's other satellites, launches into orbit on the Soyuz rocket. This vehicle dates back even a bit further, to 1966. Russian engineers have modified and modernized both the spacecraft and rocket over time, but they remain essentially the same space vehicles.
There's nothing wrong with aging technology that works. However, there have been some issues of late with leaks and other problems that have raised serious questions about quality control and the ability of the Russians to manufacture these vehicles.
IOW, Russia lost a decades-long ability under the watch of Putin/his appointed cronies
Yeah, Roscosmos was a pretty normal space agency, ESA even had collaborations with them (ExoMars comes to mind). It's Putin's political decisions that have all but ended Roscosmos. I can't see them recovering from this, at least not in the near future.
Didn't they just stop launching stuff into space altogether?
Oh shit, I don't even need to look to know hexbears are getting spicy in the comments lmao
That was no failure! That was a successful lithobreaking maneuver!
The rapid unscheduled disassembly occurred exactly on schedule.