I didn't know they have schools on the moon. Or was it a power station?
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Maternity ward.
Special lunar operation.
“This is all the West’s fault!”
Obviously it was not a moon rocket, but a Drone aimed for Kiev.
The moon needed to be de-nazified.
The Moon looked too much like a kindergarten. The lander got confused.
What's the problem. It was a lunar lander. It landed on the moon. Mission accomplished.
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.
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The US should put a lander together out of trash for shits and giggles and have it land perfectly.
A 1979 TV show about a guy who put together a junk spaceship to salvage junk from the moon: Salvage 1.
My teenage self found it entertaining at the time. Hmmm, now where did I leave my parrot? I wonder if he could help me find a copy…
Or just land people in a few years. They're working on a several hundred ton lander right now!
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I always suspected that it was just a missile painted like a rocket.
It launched on a soyuz, which has an extremely long history. It first launched in 67. All rockets back then had icbm roots or aspirations. But for a long time all icbms use solid propellent for better long term storage rather than liquid propellant like soyuz.
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It seems that a dish washer's controller isn't suitable for moon landing after all.
They should've upgraded it to the Logitech G F710
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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.
Failures are a part of science! I hope russian scientist dont lose their funding and can continue to contribute to space exploration.
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The russian wording on the mission failure is something to behold. Luna-25 "ceased its existence".
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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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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.
You know normally I would applaud them. Happy when China has a success. Screw Russia though. This was a propaganda mission to get a win. The fact that did it in a rush to beat another country is typical of their philosophy. There was little science in this but mostly just dick waving.
This was my impression. This was a rushed propaganda mission for prestige using existing material.
Still, I'm sure there would have been some useful science done, but the main point of the mission was that Putin's regime would have been able to crow about how great Russia is doing.
Of course, if it had succeeded, it might have spurred some competitive spirit in other space powers.
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Well your intention is admirable but childish.
Nobody gives a fuck about Russia's scientific endeavours when they're re starting the biggest military conflict in Europe since WWII and threatening everyone with a nuclear conflict.
Most probably any scientific progress that could be made will not be used for mankind's progress but for the current militaristic propaganda.
All of Apollo took place during the Vietnam war. Somehow I think you'd feel differently about that.
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Testing a new lithobraking maneuver.
Special crashing operation.
No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was
There was a moon in the way
Cutting corners due to the money being spirited away by corrupt officials. This is Russia after all.
Nah, it was obviously sabotage by Western Ukrainian gay Nazis.
NATO's secret moon base lasers shot it down
Stop…everyone knows it’s moon Nazis. Haven’t you seen Iron Sky?
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.
Hard to make a rocket when you are afraid of windows above ground floor.
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Cause of failure: built in Russia
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.
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Ah yes, lithobreking.
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