Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.

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[–]twolanterns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

people dont realize how complex these things are and so many things that can go wrong

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I had read it was neck and neck with the Chandrayaan-3 lander, I wonder if they tried to hurry up and get there first, maybe the original approach was gentler.

[–]neolib[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There are various rumors, including similar speculations:

Around the same time, another Telegram channel Yura Prosti claimed that a computational error led to the final engine firing to be 1.5 times longer than required and thus resulting in deorbiting and crash of the spacecraft on the Moon.

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According to one rumor surfaced on August 20, the Onboard Flight Control System, BKU (INSIDER CONTENT) of the lander mishandled the so-called variable thrust controller (privod regulyatora tyagi), which manages the operation of the propulsion system (INSIDER CONTENT) on Luna-Glob. Around the same time, the offcial Russian media quoted IKI scientist Natan Eismont as saying that tyhe problems with the spacecraft had been discovered well before the fatal orbit-lowering maneuver, which would have to be postponed to deal with the problem. Accoridng to some speculations on the Russian social media, the mission managers were pressured not to postpone the transfer to a lower orbit in order to beat an Indian lander to the lunar surface, which was scheduled to touch down near the South Pole of the Moon on Aug. 23, 2023.

https://russianspaceweb.com/luna-glob-flight.html#0819

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Always hilarious when the national pride of a country spanning 13 time zones is at stake and they don't bother to apply the science of software development of the last 35 years. How do they even select the morons working on their space systems? By whoever can drink wodka the fastest?

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

space is a lie, you are reading fiction

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Archived: https://archive.is/yOsUj

I see one photo of the launch, but no other images so far.

explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water

There is water and physical life on the far-side. I think they know it, from all the missions that took detailed images of the far-side, which the general public does not see, or they only have access to the black and white images at a distance.