Russia's Luna-25 crashes into moon, Indian Chandrayaan-3 on track
Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly five decades, Luna-25, crashed into the moon a day after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said on Sunday, leaving Indian Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander module the only spacecraft in the race to touch down on the lunar surface.
According to Roscosmos, on August 19 an impulse was provided to propel Luna-25 into an elliptical pre-landing orbit. At 11.57 GMT (5.27 pm IST), communication with Luna-25 was lost, in a blow to Moscow’s first lunar mission in 47 years.
Appearing confident, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today announced that the second and the final deboosting operation of the spacecraft has been carried out successfully.
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