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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.co.uk)

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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 171 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 153 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Murdered by words

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[-] fernfrost@lemmy.world 140 points 10 months ago

Sucks for the scientists / engineers.

[-] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

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

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

They are likely going to be drafted...

[-] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 21 points 10 months ago

maybe that already happened to some of them and that's why this happened

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[-] gentooer@programming.dev 30 points 10 months 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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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 109 points 10 months ago

Fuck the Russian government, but you still hate to see something like this happen.

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, I actually don't. This was never going to be scientifically meaningful. It was nothing but a vanity project that went exactly how it deserved to.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago

It was set to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements

Is this false?

[-] SON_OF_SUNS@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is the russia gov reviving the 'Luna' mission name and mission type after decades coincidence when russia is heavily sanctioned by the west and in need of showing it is a industrial and scientific powerhouse? At a time it is according to its own gov 'at war with NATO', just like during the cold war?

Doing exploration & science when you go is a given, but it is disingenuous saying that Russia started this mission out of pure scientific interest. The same can of course be said of US moon or Mars programs.

The difference however is this one failed its obvious primary objective: showing that Russia = strong, and that at a time that Russia is desperate for a succes, not another example that it is a shithole.

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[-] ours@lemmy.film 18 points 10 months ago

I doubt it since India has a mission right now to do the same thing.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not false, but from Russia it's worthless. China and India have actually competent missions to the same region planned, and the US's Artemis 3 crewed mission is also planning to land in that region by 2026. This was absolutely an incompetent rush job attempt to beat everybody else to the punch in the name of "Russian Superiority".

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[-] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Based on what I know about Russia they would probably claim moon as part of Russia and then bomb the 1969 moon landing site with cluster munitions. Fuck em

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 80 points 10 months ago

The “Kaputnik” has landed.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months 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 64 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GreatFord@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months 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.

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[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 53 points 10 months ago

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

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

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

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 14 points 10 months 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..

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

You chose Segal over Trump for narcissists sucking on Russia's tit?

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 47 points 10 months ago

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

[-] KrayZeeOne@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months 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 35 points 10 months ago

They are not communists, they are russian apologists.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

They're tankies.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months 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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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

LMAOOOOOO

Seems like russian science is as shit as russian military

[-] nutbiggums@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] ph00p@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months 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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[-] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months 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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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

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

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

Sad, hope chandrayaan makes it.

[-] plumbercraic 17 points 10 months ago

I'm impressed they managed to hit it

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