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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[–] fernfrost@lemmy.world 140 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sucks for the scientists / engineers.

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder how long until we start hearing about them β€œfalling” out of windows.

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are likely going to be drafted...

[–] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

maybe that already happened to some of them and that's why this happened

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unlikely, Russia wanted that PR.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, so I wonder if the engineers/data scientists sabotaged this on purpose

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think that, they will now be conscripted...

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's probably too early for this to be a reason for the crash, but Russian brain drain after their full-scale Ukrainian invasion is real.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Brain-drain is going for last 20 years of Putin presidency

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any setback for science is a setback for humanity… but at the same time, Russia fucking up is not totally unexpected.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well, if 80% of budget is stolen for new Rogozin's mansion, I'm surprised it didn't explode at lauch pad.