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- astronomy@kerala.party
- space
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.
It was Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years.
Russia has been racing to the Moon’s south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.
No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon’s surface.
No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.
- Diplomjodler ( @Diplomjodler@feddit.de ) 44•1 year ago
I didn’t know they have schools on the moon. Or was it a power station?
- SpicyPeaSoup ( @SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
Maternity ward.
- taylus ( @taylus@lemmy.ml ) 33•1 year ago
“This is all the West’s fault!”
- clb92 ( @clb92@feddit.dk ) 32•1 year ago
Special lunar operation.
- Che Banana ( @Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) 31•1 year ago
Obviously it was not a moon rocket, but a Drone aimed for Kiev.
- Echinoderm ( @Echinoderm@aussie.zone ) English30•1 year ago
The moon needed to be de-nazified.
- Haus ( @Haus@kbin.social ) 22•1 year ago
Is Moon NATO member?
- ArxCyberwolf ( @Snowpix@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
The Moon looked too much like a kindergarten. The lander got confused.
- RickyRigatoni ( @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml ) 20•1 year ago
What’s the problem. It was a lunar lander. It landed on the moon. Mission accomplished.
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
Nobody walked away from that landing, so it definitely wasn’t a good one. The fact that there was nobody to walk away from the landing is a mere technicality.
- NuclearDolphin ( @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
Comments exactly what I expected. Disappointed how many people here are knee jerk celebrating the failure. Feels like being in a room full of Republicans when someone says anything about Mexico or Islam.
I hope they fix their shit for Luna 26 for the sake of science and human discovery.
- KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ( @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
I thought Russia said they would not share any of the science.
- TheMadnessKing ( @TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ) English9•1 year ago
As someone fond of science, its kinda heart breaking as many people spends decades of work to make this stuff and their dreams get crushed when these fail. Hope they fix and launch another one.
- AlexTheTurtle ( @AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•1 year ago
Failures are a part of science! I hope russian scientist dont lose their funding and can continue to contribute to space exploration.
- towerful ( @towerful@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
Ah yes, lithobreking.
- jawsua ( @jawsua@lemmy.one ) 8•1 year ago
Good news:
moon’s no longer haunted
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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- wabafee ( @wabafee@lemm.ee ) 6•1 year ago
This crash feels so symbolic it correlates with their economy and their president ego.
- Notnotmike ( @Notnotmike@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was
- Zoboomafoo ( @Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net ) 18•1 year ago
There was a moon in the way
- Banik2008 ( @Banik2008@infosec.pub ) 12•1 year ago
Cutting corners due to the money being spirited away by corrupt officials. This is Russia after all.
- Diplomjodler ( @Diplomjodler@feddit.de ) 14•1 year ago
Nah, it was obviously sabotage by Western Ukrainian gay Nazis.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
NATO’s secret moon base lasers shot it down
- Madison_rogue ( @Madison_rogue@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Stop…everyone knows it’s moon Nazis. Haven’t you seen Iron Sky?
- kattenluik ( @kattenluik@feddit.nl ) 9•1 year ago
That’s part of the cause, not the reason why it actually failed. The people at Roscosmos do work pretty hard even though underpaid and understaffed.
- socsa ( @socsa@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
Hard to make a rocket when you are afraid of windows above ground floor.
- kattenluik ( @kattenluik@feddit.nl ) 5•1 year ago
Definitely shouldn’t be depending on what design step you’re working on, these comments are weird and unproductive.
- socsa ( @socsa@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Cause of failure: built in Russia
- Noughmad ( @Noughmad@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
The burn to slow it down into a low orbit went too long, which made the resulting orbit too low (so low that it intersected the surface).
No word yet on why the burn was too long.
- BaconIsAVeg ( @BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
The front fell off.
- socsa ( @socsa@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Whoops 👀
- SouthEndSunset ( @SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
There will be no arguments over whether they got there…