After the Luna-25 crash, Russia is searching for the reasons for its lunar fiasco
Eager to maintain its status as a space power despite international sanctions, Russia under Vladimir Putin didn’t need to. On August 20, in the middle of the day, Roscosmos engineers had to admit that the Luna-25 lunar probe had missed the landing before it “ceased to exist after hitting the lunar surface.”
This announcement abruptly put an end to the hopes of the Russians, who were following the flight of Luna-25, which began on the night of August 10-11. “This is the first Russian expedition to the Earth’s satellite in nearly fifty years,” said the RBC economic agency in Moscow. Luna-25 launched from Vostotchny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, and was successfully put into lunar orbit last Wednesday. Meanwhile, the station was able to transmit a “selfie” and then the first pictures of the dark side of the Moon, in particular the Zeeman crater, which circled the Russian Web, causing the pride of Internet users.
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