The Luna-25 probe, 🇷🇺 Russia’s first moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the moon after an incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, the Russian space agency has said.

Communication with Luna-25 was lost at 2:57 pm (1157 GMT) on Saturday, Roscosmos said.

According to preliminary findings, the lander “has ceased to exist following a collision with the Moon’s surface”, Roscosmos said on Sunday.

“Measures taken on August 19 and 20 to locate the craft and make contact with it were unsuccessful.”

The space agency said an investigation would be launched into the causes of the crash, without giving any indication of what technical problems might have occurred.

With Luna-25, Moscow had hoped to build on the legacy of its Soviet-era Luna programme, marking a return to independent lunar exploration.

The 800-kilogram Luna-25 probe was to have made a soft landing on the lunar south pole on Monday, the first in history.

The Russian spacecraft was part of a big-power race to explore a part of the moon that scientists think may hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roughly the size of a small car, it was expected to operate for a year on the south pole, where scientists at NASA and other space agencies in recent years have detected traces of frozen water in the craters.

The presence of water has implications for major space powers, potentially allowing longer human sojourns on the moon that would enable the mining of lunar resources.

Earlier, Roskosmos said it received the first results from the Luna-25 mission and they were being analysed.

The agency also posted images of the moon’s Zeeman crater taken from the spacecraft. The crater is the third deepest in the moon’s southern hemisphere, measuring 190km (118 miles) in diameter and eight kilometres (five miles) in depth.

Roskosmos said data it received so far provided information about the chemical elements in the lunar soil and would also facilitate the operation of devices designed to study the near-surface of the moon.

Its equipment registered “the event of a micrometeorite impact”.

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Yawa don gas o


wahala pro max


😂 😂

Make Russia take am easy o

Congratulations to Russia on the crash

Continue crashing on other planetary bodies, Asteroid go also crash on earth

This is a country that is fighting the whole of western world single handed and is backing Niger military junta that greed driven , covetous Nigeria wants to invade, I laugh in Wagner

The guys on that part of the moon destroyed it...yeah there are men on the moon...was the craft manned?

Russia don collect from nature

Millions wasted Omo when will Africa try this on their own

Ahahahahha

The mission that US have done severally

Russia still crashing even though it is the one after 60 years

West 50 Russia 0

Modified. I later read the article. I accept correction (In love) what Russian was about to do in fhe space

Money lost...

Dreamhighnow:
Ahahahahha

The mission that US have done severally

Russia still crashing even though it is the one after 60 years

West 50 Russia 0

You were there when they did it "severally". Are you sure you're not an APC supporter

Nah that Landing dey always cause Wahala. Make we see how the Indians spacecraft go perform.

I hope it will be able to achieve a Soft Landing this week

nairalanda1:


India achieved a succesful landing on Mars...so the moon should be a piece of cake.

Its not as easy as you think it is to land on the Moon South Pole because of the terrain. Israel and Japan have tried and failed in the past, Russia has failed and India failed the last time they try to land on the Moon South Pole.

They claim to have learn some lesson from their pass ordeal, so we shall see what the outcome will be soon.

No Country have been able to achieve a Soft Landing on the South Pole. India might be the first to achieve it

ClearFlair:


You were there when they did it "severally". Are you sure you're not an APC supporter

He sure sounds like one.

Hehehe

Africans see your mate,if it is Niger now everyone will be raising shoulders.

The Almighty is telling Putin and Russia" you are getting too big for your boots" , Stay in Russia

I put you on the Earth to fulfill my will and now you are dragging the moon with me

do you think you are dealing with the Ukraine

I no be your Great Grand forefathers mate

Maybe all the Apolo missions were lies... How come these guys could successfully land in the moon more than 40 years ago BUT struggles to land now.

America and Russia scammed us with the moon landing storyline 😃😃😃

Lol

Alien don seize the craft

ClearFlair:


You were there when they did it "severally". Are you sure you're not an APC supporter

Surely he is

Most of them are brainless

God of Ukraine.


Russia making several loses from several angles

Dreamhighnow:
Ahahahahha

The mission that US have done severally

Russia still crashing even though it is the one after 60 years

West 50 Russia 0

they lie to you about Apollo. No one has gone to the moon. Russia is a big name even USA is aware

Hmm

This crash will favour me and my family.


Ndi Uchu.

kettykin:
This is a country that is fighting the whole of western world single handed and is backing Niger military junta that greed driven , covetous Nigeria wants to invade, I laugh in Wagner

The same country that defeated Ukraine in 24 hours ?