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The LRO camera team located the likely location of the impact crater, after an estimate was published by Russian researchers. The crash site is situated on the steep inner rim of the Pontécoulant G crater, which is 400 kilometers short of Luna 25's intended landing point if it had attempted a landing procedure. [39]
Russia's failed Luna-25 mission left a 10-metre wide crater on the moon when it crashed last month after a problem preparing for a soft landing on the south pole, according to images released by NASA.
The Luna-25 was in a race with an Indian spacecraft launched on July 14 to be the first to reach the south pole. Both were expected to reach the moon between Aug. 21 and 23. Both were expected to ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit ...
25 April 2023 Unsuccessful attempt; contact was lost before landing alongside the lander being crash-landed. Luna 25 Russia: 19 August 2023: Unsuccessful attempt; crashed on lunar surface after failure during lunar orbit insertion. Chandrayaan-3 India: 23 August 2023
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of a crater on the moon’s surface that’s likely the impact site of Russia’s Luna 25 mission after it crashed.
Luna 25: Luna 25: 10 August 2023: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat: Roscosmos: Lander: Spacecraft failure Launched on 10 August 2023, Orbital insertion on 16 August 2023, failed orbital maneuver on 19 August 2023 set the spacecraft on the crash course with the Moon's surface. Loss of communication was confirmed by Roscosmos on 20 August 2023.
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