The Luna-25 robotic station was the first lunar mission in modern history, but this one. When the spacecraft tried to enter orbit before landing, the engine ran about one and a half times longer than it should, and as a result crashed into , – Unfortunately, the engine shutdown did not occur normally, according to the sequence diagram, but according to the time cut-off and instead of the planned 84 seconds, it worked for 127 seconds. This was the main reason, said the head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov, quoted by the Russian agency .
Luna-25 crashed on the moon
Members of a specially appointed rescue committee are still trying to determine what exactly led to the situation . So far it is known that contact with Luna was lost on Saturday, August 19 at 14:57 Moscow time (13:57 Polish time). Her recovery ended in failure, a preliminary calculations by experts indicate that due to the aforementioned problem, the probe switched to an unplanned orbit and crashed into the surface of the moon.
Luna-25 was supposed to be Russia’s return to space
However, the Russians found positives in this setback. – One of the achievements of this, albeit unfinished, mission is the creation of a new team that will take into account all the mistakes made during this mission, and I hope that future Luna-26, Luna-27 and Luna-28 missions will be successful – said Yuri Borisov. The previous mission – “Luna-24” – was sent into space in 1976, still by . The lunar Luna program was launched in 1958.
Source: Gazeta
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