Russia's Luna-25 probe lost control and crashed into the moon, officials said. It was Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years. The unmanned craft was supposed to land on the moon's south pole for the first time, but failed after encountering problems while moving into pre-landing orbit.
Russia's lunar mission, Luna-25, crashed on the moon...Roscosmos revealed the other day that there were failures in the lunar mission.
At 2:10 p.m. Moscow time yesterday, Luna-25 attempted to move the probe into lunar orbit. However, the probe was not able to reach the predetermined orbit. The Russian space agency has said that it is analysing the technical malfunction of the probe and is trying to fix the problem.
The Russian lunar probe Luna-25 crashed on the moon. The failure of the Luna-25 mission was reported by international media citing the Russian space agency Ros cosmos. After this, there were reports that the Luna probe had crashed on the lunar surface. Ros cosmos said it will study the reasons for the mission failure. Luna's crash came as India's Chandrayaan-3 mission was scheduled to make a soft landing on the moon on August 23.