The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said the Luna-25 spacecraft had an emergency on the Moon and that teams were analyzing the problem.
“Today, according to the flight schedule, at 2pm:
On 10 Moscow time, the automated station Luna-25 gave an impulse to move into orbit before landing. During the operation, an emergency situation arose on the automatic station, which did not allow maneuvering with the specified parameters," Roscosmos said, according to a translated statement.
He added that the management team is currently analyzing the situation. Roscosmos has yet to say anything about the landing attempt ahead of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon's south pole. Luna-25 was successfully launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on August 11.
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The cosmodrome is an exciting project for Russian President Vladimir Putin and is key to his efforts to establish Russia as a space superpower and move Russian launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. to Kazakhstan.
It is orbiting the Moon after reaching lunar orbit earlier this week.
Luna-25 will sample rocks and dust on the Moon. The samples are important to understand the moon's environment before building a base there, "otherwise we could build everything and have to close six months later because everything has been effectively sandblasted. ", Bloomer said. The lunar south pole is of particular interest to scientists, who believe that permanently obscured polar craters may contain water.
