Russia\u2019s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed onto the moon\u2019s surface. Luna-25 was Russia\u2019s first moon mission after 47 years. This incident came into hearing a day after Russia\u2019s spacecraft failed to enter the pre-landing orbit of the moon. Luna-25 was scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russian space agency Roscosmos revealed on Sunday that an initial analysis of Luna-25 complication indicates that a deviation between the actual and calculated parameters of the propulsion maneuver led to the apparatus moving into an unintended orbit causing it to collide with the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roscomos State Space Corporation notified on its official telegram channel that an impulse was provided, following the Luna-25 flight program, on 19 August to form its pre-landing orbit. Communication with the Luna-25 apparatus was interrupted at around 14:57 Moscow time. The attempts to search and get in contact with the device on August 19 and 20 were in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The space agency has said an investigation will be started to look into the cause of the crash. However, they gave no clue as to what technical errors might have occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia had not commenced a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976 during Leonid Brezhnev\u2019s rule. Luna-25 was supposed to secure a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on August 21 before ISRO\u2019s Chandrayaan-3\u2019s landing. India and Russia had been racing against each other, however, Russia\u2019s lunar mission has now failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 launched on 14 July, and its lander module successfully separated from the Propulsion Module on Thursday, 35 days after its launch. The objectives of the ISRO spacecraft are the demonstration of a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface, the demonstration of a rover roving on the moon, and the conducting of in-situ scientific experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chandrayaan-3 is more advanced than Russia’s Luna-25. It comprises an indigenous Vikram Lander module (LM), a propulsion module (PM), and a Pragyan Rover equipped with scientific tools for chemical analysis of the lunar surface. In contrast, Luna 25 does not carry a rover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luna-25 has a leaner lift-off mass of only 1,750 kilograms, significantly lighter than Chandrayaan-3’s 3,800 kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Indian Space Research Organisation said that Chandrayaan-3 will secure a soft landing on August 23 at 18:04 Hrs IST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roscomos State Space Corporation notified on its official telegram channel that an impulse was provided, following the Luna-25 flight program, on 19 August to form its pre-landing orbit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":485466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511,98870],"tags":[160208,160209,636,160210],"yst_prominent_words":[10853,14482,64519,39882,75789,10329,78588,75685,23036,45402,13759],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20185821\/r0_0_800_600_w800_h600_fmax-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485464"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=485464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=485464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}