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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says
(www.reuters.com)
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It was never going to make the landing. The landing camera (ESA's PILOT-D) was pulled (along w Sweden's LINA-XSAN science mission) due to Russia's war on Ukraine. This satellite was always going to be DOA.
They just launched it for political points, so it's likely that blaming failure on a micro-meteorite en route is a ploy to save face.
Sauce?
Here's a couple articles and quotes (guess they were from only a week ago):
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/10/russia-lunar-landing-mission-luna-25-moon
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/10/russia-to-launch-its-first-mission-to-the-moon-in-nearly-50-years
https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-moon-mission-launch-success
Ok, I'm REALLY not trying in any way to defend the monstrous, murderous, invading pieces of shit:
But JWST was like 1.5 decades late, I was waiting for it since the early 2000s: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-budget-timeline-scale
My point is: yes, they shot an old go-pro tied to a dreidel up there to prove they could shoot something, but we screw up space more often, this is one specific and limited area where we really shouldn't throw too many stones.
But, if you want to make fun of their shitty ISS modules, go have fun with that!
The difference is JWST works flawlessly despite (or because?) those delay and ballooning budget, while the Luna-25 probably won't survive the landing.
Launching an impactor to the moon is no longer "space superpower" stuff nowadays.
The wikipedia page on the Luna-25 mission has sources referenced on the removed parts under the "science payload" section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_25
There were some articles discussing it and Russia's thinking prior to launch in going ahead without them. They said they'd count just getting to the moon as a success even if the landing failed, but you kind of had to read between the lines a little bit. Not having a landing camera was a big give away. They'd essentially decided they weren't going to get that back due to the whole situation they put themselves in.
I'd have to try a bit more to find one of those articles from a few weeks ago. They're buried under more current references to the mission at this point.
Thanks!
Doesn't sound like it was a critical part of the mission.
Hopefully they can land without it, provided they can recover from this current mishap. Any success in space is good for science.
Supposedly they have another landing instrument, though I suspect the camera was somewhat important for selecting a landing site. The Doppler speed and range meter is discussed briefly here:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/luna-25-mission-launch/
It didn't make it.
Exactly. Would be a shame if it goes to waste. But it sure seems pretty doomed.
Monday will bring some answers.
/edit Nevermind. It's gone