Luna-25

21 Aug

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon

Moscow, Aug 20, Russia's space agency Roscosmos has said that its Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it ran into "unspecified trouble", the media reported on Sunday. While entering a pre-landing orbit, the spacecraft ran into unspecified issues and "spun into an uncontrolled orbit", reports Mirror. Earlier, the spacecraft encountered an "abnormal situation" as it was preparing to transfer to its pre-landing orbit to the moon. "During the operation an emergency occurred on the space probe that did not allow it to perform the manoeuvre in accordance with the required parameters," Roscosmos said in a statement on Saturday. The…

11 Aug

After 47 years, Russia journeys to Moon with Luna-25

Moscow, Aug 11(IANS) After 47 years, Russia is set to return to the Moon with its Luna 25 lander mission. Luna-25 took off atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny launch facility in Russia at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time (4:40 am IST) on Friday, TASS news agency reported. Russia's last lunar mission, Luna-24 was launched in 1976, during the former Soviet Union period. It successfully delivered about 170 grams of moon samples to Earth. Luna-25 is expected to reach the Moon’s orbit on August 16 before landing on August 21. The spacecraft will spend between three and seven days about 100…