The Luna 25 spacecraft reported an “emergency situation on board,” Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Saturday.
An incident occurred as the spacecraft was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit, according to Roscosmos.
“During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos said in a Telegram post.
This was entirely shocking and unforeseen seeing how well all of Russia’s recent space tech has performed
On one side I’m saddened by the scientific loss. But I’m also a bit relieved that the vatniks don’t get to use it for propaganda purposes.
Unfortunately I’m with you on this one. If this really fails, it helps a little bit with the war in Ukraine. Not much, but still…
Really sucks that we’re at this point.
For those wondering, and who didn’t read the article:
It’s not yet clear if the issue will prevent the lunar lander, which was slated to land near the moon’s south pole as soon as Monday, from attempting a touchdown.
Well it did and it crashed into the moon surface instead it seems
No fan of Russian leaders but their engineers are great. Hope they can figure out the issue and avoid the political drama.
I think most of the good engineers have left russia by now.
From what I remember, there’s a very heavy emphasis on engineering in Russia, and they produce more engineers than any other country. They may have some brain drain, but plenty to spare.
They’re all drunk and the research money has been funneled to Dear Leader’s yatchs.
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While roscosmos has been a bit of a powerhouse for ISS missions they seem to have difficulty with missions beyond GEO. I hope they are able to land successfully but I wouldn’t be betting on it.
Weren’t they mostly a powerhouse because America didn’t have launch capability for so long?
More or less
Looks like the Roscosmos personnel will be taking a company vacation to Ukraine
Putin be failing at Kerbal Space Program now
The Russian Lander approches the lunar surface. Pieces of it are rattling and shaking as it makes it way in. Huge chunks of paint have fallen off, revealing the skin of a Lebedenko Tank underneath and a Jerry-rigged Ukrainian toilet
Russian Government: " We have lost contact with the greatest lander ever made. This is obviously the handmarks of Westren jealousy."
The onboard computer just had a little smoking accident, nothing to worry about.
Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, Comrade
Be interesting to see if they can sort it out prior to landing or what
This moon aggressor is starting to make the administration look bad! It better be careful around any nearby windows…
Time to send poorly equipped conscripts to de-Nazify the moon.
Man thinks Iron Sky was a documentary
Vlad has a very low accuracy at identifying Nazis, he’s the one sending them.
that government can’t get anything to work. they should invest some research points on meritocracy if they want to advance before Ghandi nukes them.
They already spent all the points on corruption.
Quick, blame the west!
Hexbear: ITS THE LIBS FAULT
I made the mistake of replying to a comment on hexbear that was erroneously claiming Ukraine started the war, dudes are absolutely deranged.
Typical lefties.
hexbear and other tankies are very atypical lefties. They are a tiny minority and not at all representative of “lefties” in general.
Yeah, right.
Really? Typical lefties? Go to r/conservative on Reddit and say something mildly critical about Trump. Or slightly supportive of abortion rights. See how long you last.
Righties are no different. Actually, they’re the same shit.
This screams “enlightened centrism”
Can’t tolerate authoritarian regimes.
But Putin was assured everything will go smoothly!
It wasn’t the same exact issue Apollo 11 had, was it? I sure would hope everyone learned from the mistakes of the past.
I wander what ‘emergency situation’ is a euphemism for this time…
