RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 20, 2023 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2023 at 11:05 am by LinuxGal.)
Developments in Special Moon Operation (SMO) not necessarily in favor of Mother Russia
(CNN) - Russia’s first moon mission in decades has ended in failure after the Luna-25 spacecraft collided with the Moon’s surface.
The incident happened after communication with the spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions.
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost communication with Luna-25 on Saturday around 2:57pm Moscow time.
“The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not yield any results,” it said.
According to preliminary calculations, Luna-25 “switched to an off-design orbit” before the collision, Roscosmos said.
(CNN) - Russia’s first moon mission in decades has ended in failure after the Luna-25 spacecraft collided with the Moon’s surface.
The incident happened after communication with the spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions.
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost communication with Luna-25 on Saturday around 2:57pm Moscow time.
“The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not yield any results,” it said.
According to preliminary calculations, Luna-25 “switched to an off-design orbit” before the collision, Roscosmos said.
