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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.
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Good news:
moon’s no longer haunted
The Soviets were the last to land on the moon (other than China).
NASA has been too busy pissing money into the Shuttle and SLS industry subsidy programs. I think they have a couple micro lander projects on the go though, slated for next year or the year after.
TIL when a non-USA country lands in space, that place becomes haunted, but USA brings good capitalism everywhere it goes…
America good, rest of the world bad
Least delusional Anglo
This is off-topic, but I keep seeing Anglo being used (maybe I just keep running into your comments). Is it suppose to be insulting like in the context of your comment? Is it descriptive? How do you know if someone is an Anglo online? Do you feel like it has any negative connotations being used? Feel free to answer any of the questions or none at all lol, curiosity got the better of me.
Atleast 70-80% of internet users on internet in general are guaranteed to be from Anglosphere countries. Yes, it is insulting for the white hivemind that looks down upon rest of the world with ~7 billion people.
Huh, I was forced in my early years to be raised around very conservative and racist individuals so your use of the word and validation for it’s usage feels very much like my childhood experience. To each their own though, the commonality is just interesting to me when I saw your first comment.
You weirdo, it’s in reference to a famous meme
Haunted bybthe specter of comunism.
There will be no arguments over whether they got there…
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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Obviously it was not a moon rocket, but a Drone aimed for Kiev.
The Moon looked too much like a kindergarten. The lander got confused.
The moon needed to be de-nazified.
Is Moon NATO member?
The moon was standing there, MENACINGLY!
The moon was encroaching on our sovereign territory.
No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was
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.
Cause of failure: built in Russia
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.
Definitely shouldn’t be depending on what design step you’re working on, these comments are weird and unproductive.
The front fell off.
There was a moon in the way
I didn’t know they have schools on the moon. Or was it a power station?
Maternity ward.
The US should put a lander together out of trash for shits and giggles and have it land perfectly.
They are doing it with the artemis mission
On the remains of the
sovietrussian oneNot coincidentally none of the space agencies out there that are capable of this would find it worth their time to launch a mission just to teabag another nation.
just to teabag another nation.
Gestures broadly at the space race of the 1950s
None of the space agencies in the 1950s would be capable of landing gently on a crashed spacecraft.
In the 1950s they had the interest but not the capability. Today they have the capably but not the interest.
Or just land people in a few years. They’re working on a several hundred ton lander right now!
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…
Well, I mean NASA pulled a spare mars rover out of their R&D testing labs, modified it’s toolset a bit, and sent it to Mars for a second soft landing (didn’t they use a sky-crane for both rover deployments?). I’d say that takes a bit more skill than landing on the Moon. But I don’t play Kerbal Space Program enough to know how much
Ah yes, lithobreking.
Well, hopefully India has more success.
Whatever scientific data humanity would gain from such a success is in no way worth the decade of triumphant screeching from Hindu nationalists that would result.
Just bring up China’s Chang’e success
Tbh the only way to win an interaction with a Hindu nationalists is to not interact.
But would it be worth it if Russia did the same?
(Though, this isn’t mentioning they targeted the moon because all their missions to other planets ended in total failure. This one did at least make it to it’s target, so that’s better than Russia has done in a long time. Their space program, along with their government and military, is a joke.)
I suppose that depends on your opinions on the relative annoyingness of Russian nationalists vs Hindu Nationalists.
Given that most Russian nationalists post in Russian and aren’t heavily present in English spaces, I find the Hindu nationalists to be more annoying.
So purely because you think they’re annoying… and you’re on hexbear where 90% of the comments are a stupid image instead of anything meaningful. Alright. I guess you’re probably an expert on annoying at this point so you’re opinion must be valid, right?
hexbear where 90% of the comments are a stupid image instead of anything meaningful.
I find this characterization strange, we’ve got emotes and we use them, but the clear majority of comments on most threads are still text-only. Seriously, go to Hexbear and pick a thread.
Yes, I am the solitary Truth Decider. That’s exactly what I claimed.
There are fascists among Russian nationalists, but they are not the people in power (e.g. darling martyr for western media, Navalny, is one). In India, the fascists are much more powerful. On that basis, I think the Russian ones would be bothersome but not as much so. Much better for it to be China, but they can’t do everything.
There’s gonna be nationalistic screeching no matter what, like I’m sure it felt in the 30 years after the US moon landing
On the way to landing on the South Pole…
Special lunar operation.
The russian wording on the mission failure is something to behold. Luna-25 “ceased its existence”.
I’m surprised they aren’t denying it ever existed at all.
You shouldn’t be, I’m quite certain Roscosmos has never denied or hid anything about something that was always open.
Thats the end for Ross kosmos.
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.
I hear you saying that they’re very similar platforms. I’m saying that the neccesary differences that would make it a scientific rocket were simply missing, an empty shell, a smokeshow.
What differences? The difference between icbms and rockets to launch to space is usually the time it takes to get the rocket ready to launch, and how long it can be stored for.
Scientific instruments, sufficient navigation technology, communications
That’s on the satellite itself, not the launch vehicle. As far as I know, there’s no commonality between the lander and the multiple reentry vehicle upper stages of rockets. Here’s more about the lander: https://youtu.be/XM8bJsqCLYQ
wish there was video, probably looked pretty goofy
It seems that a dish washer’s controller isn’t suitable for moon landing after all.
If a dishwasher had any chip capable of processing anything at all it would be suitable, which is pretty funny.
Most modern dishwashers have some kind of processor, and yes they’d be perfectly capable of handling the necessary computations.
I take it you haven’t seen the guy that got Doom running on a dishwasher?
They should’ve upgraded it to the Logitech G F710
