The Moon, unprovoked, collided with the Russian vessel that was approaching amicably. An old, whitened but still recognizable USA flag was planted on the Moon's surface, indicating this as a clear act of aggression from the imperialist power
The Moon said it might join NATO so they had to hit it. They really had no choice.
ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon
lol
Rapid unscheduled disassembly as the result of a lithobraking maneuver
It's part of slow and scheduled disassembly of Roskosmos as organization. 10 years ago it already seemed to be on that trajectory.
"As planned." -- RT
"Roscosmos was mistaken, the landing was actually successful and there was just a temporary communication error." - Kremlin
The “Kaputnik” has landed.
Paid for in rubble.
Glad it was unmanned. There's enough senseless death in the world.
If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you'll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It's a wonder there weren't more failures!
Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.
You shouldn't rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.
Technically, the death would have been off-world.
Don't you think that the fact that the mission was unmanned meant that they knew that they're not ready for manned ones yet? So nobody was rushing, as you put it.
Crewed vs uncrewed is a decision made at the very beginning of the planning stages, years ago. These days a crew is just a gigantic extra expense on a mission with little return. Remotely operated missions can achieve all their scientific objectives.
Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don't have either. It's at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won't happen).
It's unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).
What? It clearly states in the article they knew it was risky... I would consider that rushing.
Sure, but it's not rushing as in "let's skip steps of the plan for the sake of time," like it happened with, say, oceangate. It was a calculated risk.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html
We've just had more information come out, and it appears you're right about the rushing! I'll eat crow on that
"Russia is a world power" 🫡
Well, nobody claimed they'd be a moon power, too.
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Guess all those Ukrainian toilets didn't make good components for a lunar lander?
Good, because they would most probably use it to plant their stupid Z swastika on the moon, because nobody could stop them there.
A couple years back, Putin promised to put a Russian on the moon. A good question is "with what rocket?"
Turns out, an even better question is "with what communications system?" A factor in this crash is that they lack a round-the-world comm system. They can only communicate when the moon is visible over Russia. It's a big country, of course, but not big enough for 24/7 communication.
"All Russia-hating Nazis were eliminated at the crash site."
The moon's children have been taken for safe keeping.
I've played my share of Kerbel Space Program.
The lander made a planned flight to the moon, which included a high acceleration parking maneuver which resulted in unquestionable sucesss! To the Mun!
Lithobreaking maneuver.
Well, I mean... You just point at it and fire all the rockets. Even the Russians can do it!
Oh well,... Anyway
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.
The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.
Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.
"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," it said in a statement.
Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.
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On brand for Putin
Oh No! . . . . . . . . Anyway!
The Dacia Sandero!
lmao imagine Dacia landing a manned Sandero on the moon before RuZZia
I've got a new picture!
They were looking for the Iron-Sky but got intercepted
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