I'm disappointed with russia. They could have spun it into a successful drone attack on Ukrainian military moon base, or a military moon kindergarten.

I'm very conflicted by this.

On one hand it's sad that so much time and effort has been destroyed. That the hopes and pride of so many well-meaning Russian scientists has been dashed. That the science lost.

On the other hand, Russia launched this thing during their invasion of, and war against, tbe Ukraine in order to demonstrate that they're big enough and smart enough to do two things at once. To claw back some of the respect that has been lost by not having taken the Ukraine in three days...

Sigh.

"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," read a statement from the agency.

1. ffs that’s a really wordy way of saying “it crashed.”

2. “ceased to exist” - No, it still exists, just in more pieces than when it left the earth, and in a much larger area than originally intended. Still exists, though.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit of the Moon.

Russia's robot lander the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday.

"The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," read a statement from the agency.

Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit after reporting an "abnormal situation" that its specialists were analysing.

"During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to be performed with the specified parameters," Roscosmos said in a Telegram post.

The lunar south pole is of particular interest to scientists, who believe the permanently shadowed polar craters may contain water.

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Although Russia can go kick rocks and gargle some deseased old mans balls for invading Ukraine, it still sucks that they crashed the lander. On the other hand, I kinda hope for some sort of new space race where hopefully something good comes around, not just the old nukes-in-space shit...

Well, technically, it landed..

In other news, the director of the Luna-25 mission has also had a fatal encounter with gravity.

Really fitting news for sh.itjust.works. Or not.

On one hand, landing a spacecraft remotely is hard at the best of times. On the other hand, going by what we’ve seen of the state of the Russian military, I’d put money on someone involved in the project having replaced some expensive components/materials with junk, pocketed the saving and put it into real estate abroad. Spacecraft blow up all the time, out in space nothing can be proven, and if you don’t, someone else will.

Space is hard. Landing on the pole is especially hard. But, it is somewhat symbolic of Russia's economy and government