The Progress MS-24 spacecraft blasted off atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After about nine minutes it successfully separated from the rocket's last stage and was placed on its route. The cargo spacecraft began its resupply mission to the International Space Station also called Progress 85 or 85P. In this mission, the route used is the one that requires about two days.
The failure of Luna-25, a symptom of Russia's decline in space.
On Sunday, Roscosmos announced the loss of its probe, which was due to reach the Moon's south pole in the coming days. It is another setback for Russian space exploration.
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.
Russia’s unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft, which was Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976, has crashed on the surface of the moon following a technical glitch.
The event was described as the result of an “abnormal situation” involving the lander’s engines that began yesterday.
The craft, which was meant to get a sense of whether the moon could support a permanent base for humans, crashed after spinning into an "unpredictable orbit", the Russian space corporation said.
#Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years, unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
#Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.
Preliminary findings showed that the 800kg lander had "ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon", it said in a statement.
De gebeurtenissen volgen elkaar in snel tempo op. Schreven we eerder dat de ruimtesonde in de problemen zat na een probleem tijdens een baancorrectie heeft Roscosmos nu bevestigt dat Luna-25 te pletter is geslagen op de Maan.
Picture : #Soyuz at the Vostochny Launch Centre https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz-2.1a_launch_vehicle_carrying_spacecraft_Mikhail_Lomonosov_at_the_launch_pad_at_Vostochny_Launch_Centre_2.jpg
#Telegram message : "On August 19, at about 14:57 Moscow time, communication with the Luna-25 #spacecraft was interrupted.
Measures implemented on August 19 and 20 to search for the spacecraft and communicate with it did not yield any results.
According to the results of preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of actual pulse parameters from the calculated ones, the spacecraft moved to a non-calculated orbit and ceased to exist as a result of collision with the surface of the #Moon.
A specially formed interdepartmental commission will investigate the reasons for the loss of the Luna."
#TASS 📆 August 21 2023 "the invaluable experience that our predecessors 👨🔬 gained in the 1960-1970s was almost lost" because there was a disconnect between generations https://tass.com/science/1663225
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin closed the exit hatch of the module "Search" at 23:48 Moscow time.
Astronauts worked on the outer surface of the ISS for 6 hours and 24 minutes. During this time they:
▪ dismantled SeismoPrognoz scientific equipment, equipment of the old data transmission system and transceiver;
▪ installed and connected new high-speed data transmission equipment;
▪ removed from the Zvezda module the tablet No.2 of the Impact experiment and a removable cassette-container;
▪ took photos of the external surface of the #Zvezda;
▪ cleaned the outer surface of the porthole glazing;
▪ dismantled the Biorisk-MSN equipment container from the Poisk module.