Tag: Luna-25 crash

NEW DELHI: Russia's Luna-25 space craft has crashed into the moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia's space agency Roskosmos said on Sunday. Luna-25 was Russia's first moon mission in 47 years.The development comes a day after Roskosmos reported a problem in shunting Luna-25 into a pre-landing orbit. "Measures taken on August 19 and 20 to locate the craft and make contact with it were unsuccessful.The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of...