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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's roskosmos being roskosmos. I'm surprised it didn't explode mid-air.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Roskosmos is usually pretty competent.

I mean, they helped build the ISS (and a lot more) and have sent a lot people up there for YEARS without any fatalities.

^^^and ^^^no ^^^I ^^^dont't ^^^like ^^^Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Engieneers are mostly competent(even with salary of about 50k ₽/mo or 550$/mo), but managment... Incompetent managmemt is best you can hope, because Rogozin is much worse.

Production and quality control is so terrible that "accidentaly" much cheaper solder may be used, that later will cause A HOLE in ISS.

Also this particular mission was rushed. "Won't be ready for another year? Launch now!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are never going to have competetent management when they're forced to follow unrealistic goals due to political reasons.

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