Russia's Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver

Dave, 9 months ago

according to a machine translation of the statement.

I love it. Couldn’t find someone that speaks Russian so threw it in Google Translate.

dlok, 9 months ago

I can’t seem to see this in the article but I assume it was unmanned or they would have made a bigger deal about the loss of life?

Gorejelly, 9 months ago

Yes it doesn’t mention it in the article. Most of the previous articles concerning this flight (before the maneuver malfunction), did state that it was an unmanned mission. In this article it mentions that the lander was a tech demonstration (but not specifically that it was unmanned).

Fingers crossed for the Chandrayaan - 3 (spelling?). I think India is going to succeed!

InLikeClint, 9 months ago

Clearly the work of Soundwave

btaf45, 9 months ago

This is a tradition with Russia. Lots of their spacecraft have crashed on Mars also.

Prej, 9 months ago

Maybe it started a Special Moon-Drilling Operation.

mmatessa, 9 months ago

India's Chandrayaan-3 is still on track for an Aug 23 landing.

zhunk, 9 months ago

There shouldn’t have been a race or competition between the two at all, but it’ll be an even better look for ISRO if they can pull this off now.