I’m disappointed with russia. They could have spun it into a successful drone attack on Ukrainian military moon base, or a military moon kindergarten.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit of the Moon.
Russia’s robot lander the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday.
“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” read a statement from the agency.
Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit after reporting an “abnormal situation” that its specialists were analysing.
“During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos said in a Telegram post.
The lunar south pole is of particular interest to scientists, who believe the permanently shadowed polar craters may contain water.
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Really fitting news for sh.itjust.works. Or not.
I’m very conflicted by this.
On one hand it’s sad that so much time and effort has been destroyed. That the hopes and pride of so many well-meaning Russian scientists has been dashed. That the science lost.
On the other hand, Russia launched this thing during their invasion of, and war against, tbe Ukraine in order to demonstrate that they’re big enough and smart enough to do two things at once. To claw back some of the respect that has been lost by not having taken the Ukraine in three days…
Sigh.
In fact, the ‘the’ should be removed as it is an intentional way of delegitimizing Ukraine as a separate country. Regional phrasing thing apparently.
I heard the word ukraine used to mean like wastelands or swamplands or something like that. And all the Russians would call it that as an insult when it wasn’t an independent nation yet. So when they did become one, the kept the name but dropped the the. So, Ukraine is a prideful name for a strong country. The Ukraine is an insult.
Not wastelands or swamplands but borderlands
Space is hard. Landing on the pole is especially hard. But, it is somewhat symbolic of Russia’s economy and government
