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2023-08-20 Science & Technology

Russia's Special Moon Operation is a smashing success

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

Courtesy of Skidmark, the BBC has more on the pilotless lander crash, and the Jerusalem Post’s take as well: Russia's lunar lander hit by unspecified 'emergency situation'

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#1 That 'unplanned encounter with the ground/space interface' can be traumatic.

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#2 Moon is successfully denazified

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