Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon, Roscosmos says

euronews (in English)

Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit after reporting an “abnormal situation” that its specialists were analysing.

Transcript

00:00 Russia's Lunar 25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon, the country's space agency said

00:05 on Sunday, after spinning into uncontrolled orbit.

00:09 Roscosmos said it lost contact with the probe on Saturday after it ran into trouble while

00:14 preparing for its pre-landing orbit.

00:17 Lunar 25 was scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, racing to reach

00:22 the surface ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

00:25 The unmanned robot lander is the first launched by Russia since 1976, when it was part of

00:31 the Soviet Union.

00:33 [WHOOSH]

Category

Transcript

Recommended