To be fair, the USSR had more success landing on Venus than the US did.
Here is one of many articles reporting the crash:
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Here is one of many articles reporting the crash:
Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft at 11:57 GMT on Saturday after a problem as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit.
I wonder what the ramifications of this failure will be? The USSR had a vibrant space program. They beat the US and the world to many space milestones. For many years (until 2020 and the SpaceX Crew Dragon), the only way to get to the International Space Station was on a Russia rocket.
This Luna 25 failure seems to accurately reflect the decline in technical prowess of Russia compared to the USSR (although a sample size of 1 is not significant). IMO the success of the Russian Soyuz program was due to inertia from the Soviet days.
Putin needs successes in order to keep kicking the Special military Operation can down the street. Thank goodness Luna 25 was not one. I'm hoping this failure will be a setback for Putin and not just a lack of positive PR.
Today the "space race" has truly shifted, revitalized by the Xprize many years ago. It's now a vibrant western led private business competition with deep levels of innovation. We mostly know SpaceX and Blue Origin but includes on the launch side Rocketlabs (new zealand representing), Firefly and many others. Low cost mid space is here. Just amazing innovation once NASA got out of the way. Sadly, not as much from Europe. India making a few moves. China ...monolithic. Satellite innovation is exploding as well know that launch platforms are beginning to proliferate. Kepler communicatins, the well known satcube and starlink are all bringing various forms of innovation (scale, orbits, components, weight reductions, shielding, etc). Absolutely a case where rocket launch costs reductions are unleashing more innovations.To be fair, the USSR had more success landing on Venus than the US did.
Here is one of many articles reporting the crash:
Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft at 11:57 GMT on Saturday after a problem as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit.
I wonder what the ramifications of this failure will be? The USSR had a vibrant space program. They beat the US and the world to many space milestones. For many years (until 2020 and the SpaceX Crew Dragon), the only way to get to the International Space Station was on a Russia rocket.
This Luna 25 failure seems to accurately reflect the decline in technical prowess of Russia compared to the USSR (although a sample size of 1 is not significant). IMO the success of the Russian Soyuz program was due to inertia from the Soviet days.
Putin needs successes in order to keep kicking the Special military Operation can down the street. Thank goodness Luna 25 was not one. I'm hoping this failure will be a setback for Putin and not just a lack of positive PR.
I think that is the point. Ukraine needs more artillery. Things are picking up though, the offense is gaining more ground, on a weekly basis, than early summer. Good news. We just need to wipe out lots of orcs and even a shorter range HIMARS that had a massive impact would be helpful in clearing deeply fortified lines.
No confirmation yet whether the moon was using autopilot at the time.The version I read reported a collision. The moon got in the way
Recent reports from Russian sources state that black Polish NATO soldiers (yes that actually write such things) deliberately sabotaged the mission by (pick one to 5 of the following):
Super, long standing way to keep idiots acting to destroy our nation. It is sad that this is required to get people to do the right thing and help repel cruel, war crime led invaders.
