Russia's Luna-25 probe ended in failure after thruster misfire caused a crash landing.
Russia's Luna-25 probe crashed Saturday on the moon after a thruster firing went awry, cutting off communications and putting the spacecraft in the wrong orbit, the Russian space agency announced Sunday.
An artist's impression of Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The probe crashed into the moon after an orbit-adjustment rocket firing went awry.The failure was a major disappointment for the Russian space program, which was attempting to up its game amid renewed interest in the moon's south polar region where ice deposits may exist in permanently shadowed craters.
Twelve NASA astronauts walked on the moon a half century ago in the agency's Apollo program, but no Russian cosmonauts ever made the trip. Russia's only previous post-Soviet deep space robotic missions, both targeting Mars, ended in failure.
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