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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

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.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 178 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Normally, I'd say that it's a great shame that a piece of valuable scientific equipment was lost and that it's a massive loss to humanity as a whole as the international scientific community is usually able to co-operate regardless of boarders.

But this time, Russia said they won't be sharing any data gathered from this probe with the international community and would be keeping it all to themselves so suddenly I don't give a shit.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago

I agree but I'm also happy that Putin doesn't get a win by presenting this as "Russia is great and all because of me".

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[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 149 points 2 years ago

Well, they actually hit what they were aiming for at least.

[-] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago
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[-] fernfrost@lemmy.world 140 points 2 years ago

Sucks for the scientists / engineers.

[-] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

I wonder how long until we start hearing about them “falling” out of windows.

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[-] gentooer@programming.dev 30 points 2 years ago

It's probably too early for this to be a reason for the crash, but Russian brain drain after their full-scale Ukrainian invasion is real.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago

Boy, that Russian missile REALLY missed the pre-school in Kiev they were aiming for.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

Well, Russia certainly lived up to its reputation.

Maybe we can give the moon lander the benefit of the doubt and assume it spotted a rock that looked like a children's hospital, prompting a change in priorities.

[-] SirMechsALot@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

They rushed a project to compete with NASA's VIPER rover and just wanted to be first.

[-] GreatFord@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

They were also trying to be the Indian team, who are taking a longer time using gravitational whip to send their mission to the Moon’s pole.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

They were actually always pretty good at unmanned missions. This was the same design from the 1970s.

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

LMAOOOOOO

Seems like russian science is as shit as russian military

[-] nutbiggums@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Well then they just send 1000 probes and I'm sure one will work eventually

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[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 60 points 2 years ago

They will say Nato/US/Ukraine hacked into the spacecraft and made it crash. You heard it here first.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago

Essentially my narcissistic ex: everything bad that has ever happened to her is someone else’s fault.

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

so you're saying Steven Segal likes Russia because it's sort of a home for Narcissism.. yeah, i guess i can see that..

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 56 points 2 years ago

Huh. I don't see any hexbears or Lemmygrads on this thread. Interesting. Can't complain.

[-] KrayZeeOne@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

God it is validating to see you say that. I'm new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It's exhausting.

[-] msage@programming.dev 42 points 2 years ago

They are not communists, they are russian apologists.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

They're tankies.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 years ago

Tankies used to care about communism. Now they're just anti-western. They will not question if Russia or China are actually communist because it doesn't matter. They don't care about worker protections or freedoms. They only care about "owning the west."

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[-] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

What, invading Ukraine wasn't enough and now they need to pollute the moon with their piece of shit spacecraft too?

Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, etc, etc.

Slava Ukraini!

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[-] ph00p@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They call it a successful missile strike on the moon and they're back to winning again.

The Lunar War over minerals is going to be so fucking stupid and fun.

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[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

No no no, the moon illegally and meanly crashed into innocent Russia’s poor little defenseless space robot without any provocation!

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

"Today, Russian engineers managed a perfect example of Lithobreaking on the moon, showing the superiority of Soviet cosmonautics." -- Russian News Outlets

[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Must've been a Ukrainian ~~hospital~~ military base there.

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

Sad, hope chandrayaan makes it.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Last attempt to pass on the knowledge before the Luna 24 people are gone - it landed 18 August 1976.

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[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 years ago

I'm impressed they managed to hit it

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 2 years ago

In Soviet Russia, Moon land on you.

[-] discusseded@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

Noo, not a Russia!

Somebody better break the news to Hexbear; they were really close.

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