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.
A corrupted institution that just sits on impressive soviet legacy, sells old engines and push other programs to, suddenly, film a movie on orbit for PR? Yes, it will crash, and do that again. They have nothing on their own predecessors, who sent photoes and a sound recording of fucking Venus’ surface back. With that management, even Moon is too far away. But this problem, being on Earth, is harder to solve than anything happening in space.