Luna-25 Probe Crashed Into Moon And Ceased To Exist

• 20.08.2023, 12:10

Russia has officially confirmed its space fiasco.

Roscosmos has officially confirmed the crash of Luna-25, the first automatic interplanetary probe in Russia's recent history.

“Connection with the Luna-25 probe was interrupted. Measures taken on August 19 and 20 to locate the craft and make contact with it were unsuccessful.

According to the results of a preliminary analysis and due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse from the calculated ones, the spacecraft switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist following a collision with the Moon's surface,” Roscosmos said.

Connection with the Luna-25 probe was interrupted yesterday at about 14:57 Moscow time. Roscosmos specialists are investigating why the device went off course and got lost in space.

The Luna-25 probe was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on August 11. The mission was designed for a year, one of the tasks was an exploration of resources on the Moon, including the search for water.

Luna-25 was the first Russian Moon mission since 1976 when the USSR launched the Luna-24 probe.