Bad news: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed on the Moon

Bad news: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed on the Moon

This bad news is similar to the one four years ago about Chandrayaan 2. Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed on the moon. The Russian Space Agency has given this sad news. In this incident, Luna-25 lander has ceased to exist after hitting the lunar surface.

Russian space agency told that Luna-25 launched 50 years after Russia’s first Moon mission, it crashed on the Moon during pre-landing. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said contact with Luna-25 was lost late in the evening at 2:57 p.m. (11:57 GMT) Indian time on Saturday and according to preliminary findings on Sunday, it was on course to hit the lunar surface. After that the lander ceased to exist.

Now the investigation into the cause of the accident will be started and technical problems will be found out.

With Luna-25, Moscow hoped to carry on the legacy of its Soviet-era Luna program, which marked a return to independent lunar exploration in the face of growing isolation from the West.

The 800-kg Luna-25 spacecraft was to soft-land on the Moon’s south pole on Monday, a first in history.

The Russian spacecraft was part of a big-powered race to explore a part of the moon that scientists believe may contain frozen water and precious elements. Roughly the size of a small car, it was expected to operate for up to a year at the South Pole, where scientists from NASA and other space agencies have detected traces of frozen water in craters in recent years.

Before the accident, the spacecraft had taken pictures of the Zeeman Crater of the Moon. The third-deepest crater in the Moon’s southern hemisphere is 190 km (118 mi) in diameter and 8 km deep.

Source: Russian Space Agency.