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MOSCOW: The chief of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Monday advocated for Russia to stay in the lunar race, a day after announcing its mission had crashed.

“In no case should the lunar program be interrupted, that would be the worst decision,” Yuri Borisov said in an interview on television.

The Luna-25 mission was meant to mark Moscow’s return to independent Moon exploration in the face of financial troubles and corruption scandals and growing isolation from the West.

Russia’s Luna-25 probe crashes on the Moon: Roscosmos

But on Sunday, Roscosmos announced the probe had crashed during pre-landing manoeuvres.

“Interrupting the lunar program for almost 50 years is the main reason for the failure” of Luna-25, Borisov said.

“The invaluable experience that our predecessors accumulated in the 1960s and 1970s was practically lost” during the interruption of the programme, he added.

Borisov explained the crash was due to an issue with the spacecraft’s correction engine.

The engine supposed to put the spacecraft into pre-landing orbit “worked for 127 instead of the planned 84 seconds. This was the main cause of the probe’s crash,” Borisov explained.

A special commission has begun looking into the exact causes of the incident, Borisov also said.

Moscow last landed a probe – Luna-24 – on the Moon in 1976, before shifting away from lunar exploration in favour of missions to Venus and building the Mir space station.

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SAMIR SARDANA Aug 23, 2023 01:23am
THE RUSSIAN LUNA FAILED AT THE MOST CRITICAL PHASE OF DESCENT INTO LOWER LUNAR ORBITS IT EXITED THE EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL PULL DUE ITS SUPER ROCKETS - BUT FAILED TO DESCENT INTO THE LOWER LUNAR ORBIT - JUST BEFORE VERTICAL DESCENT PROBLEM IS IN THE SIMULATION ! MOONS GRAVITY + VARIATIONS IN MOONS MAGNETIC FIELD RUINED THE DAY ! COMMUNICATION LINKS WITH LUNA WERE LOST AND LUNA DID ITS OWN CALCULATIONS - BASED ON ITS DATA FIELD - WHICH WERE WRONG ! THE LINK WAS LOST DUE TO MOON MAGNETIC FIELD ! SO THE DEBOOSTER ROCKETS BLASTED AT THE WRONG ANGLE AND FOR THE WRONG TIME ! THAT WAS THE END ! AFTER THE LANDER SPEED IS REDUCED TO ZERO AND THE VEHICLE IS IN A VERTICAL POSE - HUMANS IN NASA/RUSSIA CAN DO NOTHING ! IT IS ALL AT THE MERCY OF MOON GRAVITY AND MAGENETIC FIELD, SO THE LANDER DOES ITS OWN CALCULATIONS - BASED ON DATA FROM SENSORS ! ON TOP OF THAT IT HAS TO LAND VERTICAL AND ON ALMOST FLAT LAND - AND THE ROVER HAS TO ROLL OUT ! SAMIR SARDANA
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