A Russian lander spun out of control and crashed into the moon, ending the country's first lunar mission in 47 years.
mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once-mighty space programme.
It moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon It also comes as Russia’s US$2-trillion economy faces its biggest external challenge for decades: the pressure of both Western sanctions and fighting the biggest land war in Europe since World War 2.
“India’s Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on 23 August,” the Indian Space Research Organisation posted on X, formerly Twitter, around the time news of the Luna crash broke. Russian scientists have repeatedly complained that the space programme has been weakened by poor managers who are keen for unrealistic vanity space projects, corruption and a decline in the rigour of Russia’s post-Soviet scientific education system.
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