2023-08-20 11:45:00
Takeoff of Luna 25 ROSCOSMOS | REUTERS
Her mission was to become the first to land on the South Pole of the satellite, but she took an unforeseen route.
20 ago 2023 . Updated at 3:14 p.m.
The sondarusaLuna-25whose mission was to be the first spacecraft to land on the South Pole of the satellite land, It has crashed against the lunar surface, as reported today by the Russian space agency.
According to the results of the preliminary analysis, the reason for the accident was the deviation from the previously calculated real impulse parameters: Luna-25 assumed an unforeseen orbit and ceased to exist as a result of the collision with the lunar surface, says an official statement.
The Russian agency acknowledged that it had lost contact with the spacecraft, which was to land on the lunar surface next day 21, Saturday at 2:57 p.m. local time (11:57 GMT) and attempts to resume communication on Saturday and Sunday had failed.
The agency, which on Saturday reported on an emergency situation When the engines propelled Luna-25 towards the pre-moon landing orbit, he announced that he would create a special commission to clarify the causes of the incident.
The Russian probe, which departed on August 11 from the Vostochni cosmodrome in the Russian Far East, entered orbit this Wednesday, after five days and almost ten hours of travel. At all times the authorities reported that systems were working normally and, in fact, it sent images of the lunar surface to Earth and detected the impact of a micrometeorite, among other phenomena.
With the tragedy of the automatic station, now the Indian probe Chandrayaan-3 has all the ballots to be the first to land on the moon this Wednesday at the South Pole.
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