2023-08-20 11:05:14
The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Sunday August 20 that the Luna-25 probe, which was to land on Monday for a one-year mission, crashed on the lunar surface after a loss of communication on Saturday. . She had been in lunar orbit for four days.
“The search for the ship and communication with it, carried out on August 19 and 20, did not yield any results”wrote the agency in a message posted on Telegram. The first analyzes carried out show, still according to Roscosmos, that Luna-25 left its planned route and crashed on the moon. An investigation must be launched to understand the reasons for the failure of the mission.
The probe of nearly 800 kilos, carried by a Soyuz rocket, had taken off on the night of August 10 to 11 from the Vostotchny cosmodrome, in the Far East. This probe, which was to remain on the Moon for a year, had the mission of taking samples and analyzing the soil of the star. The mission was intended to give new impetus to the Russian space sector, struggling for years due to funding problems and corruption scandals, and now isolated due to the conflict in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has promised to continue Russia’s space program despite sanctions, citing the example of the USSR sending the first man into space in 1961, amid escalating East-West tensions.
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