{"id":97871,"date":"2023-08-20T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=97871"},"modified":"2023-08-20T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:02:19","slug":"russias-luna-25-smashes-into-moon-in-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/russias-luna-25-smashes-into-moon-in-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&apos;s Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russia&#8217;s Luna-25 spacecraft CRASHES into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russia&#8217;s state space corporation said it lost contact with the craft yesterday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shortly after the craft &#8216;ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the Moon&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Russia&#8217;s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and smashed into moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,&#8217; Roskosmos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow had earlier reported an &#8216;abnormal situation&#8217; with the craft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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,&#8217; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521273-12425749-image-a-35_1692523798395.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Saturday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521263-12425749-image-a-34_1692523795279.jpg\" height=\"361\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,&#8217; Roskosmos said in a statement<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521259-12425749-image-a-38_1692523836186.jpg\" height=\"354\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Moscow had earlier reported an &#8216;abnormal situation&#8217; with the craft. &#8216;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,&#8217; the agency said in a statement<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Russia launches first mission to the Moon in 50 years: Rocket will land on lunar south pole for first time in history as the Kremlin looks to give fresh impetus to its struggling space sector<\/h3>\n<p>Failure for the prestige mission underscores the decline of Russia&#8217;s space power since the glory days of Cold War competition when Moscow was the first to launch a satellite to orbit the Earth &#8211; Sputnik 1, in 1957 &#8211; and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian sources are already blaming endemic corruption inside the agency for the failure of the mission. Putin is expected to axe top space officials over the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The mission had been due to investigate the moon&#8217;s south pole in a pioneering mission.<\/p>\n<p>When the craft was launched a remote village had to be evacuated amid fears debris would fall on it.<\/p>\n<p>The failure comes on top of multiple setbacks in Putin&#8217;s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521245-12425749-image-a-39_1692523840259.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Failure for the prestige mission underscores the decline of Russia&#8217;s space power since the glory days of Cold War competition when Moscow was the first to launch a satellite to orbit the Earth &#8211; Sputnik 1, in 1957 &#8211; and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521271-12425749-image-a-40_1692523843505.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian sources are already blaming endemic corruption inside the agency for the failure of the mission. Putin is expected to axe top space officials over the disaster<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/20\/10\/74521255-12425749-image-a-54_1692524272945.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>When the craft was launched a remote village had to be evacuated amid fears debris would fall on it<\/p>\n<p>The space agency said: &#8216;Communication with the Luna-25 spacecraft was interrupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not produce any results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;According to the results of a preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse from the calculated ones, the device switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on August 21, according to Russian space officials.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been racing against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on the moon&#8217;s south pole this week, and more broadly against China and the United States which both have advanced lunar ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12425749\/Russias-Luna-25-smashes-moon-failure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Luna-25 spacecraft CRASHES into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit Russia&#8217;s state space corporation said it lost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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