NEW DELHI: Russia’s Luna-25 space craft has crashed into the moon. spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia’s space agency Roskosmos sai 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. “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” Roskosmos said in a statement.
The agency had said that an “abnormal situation” occurred as mission control tried to move the craft into a pre-landing orbit at 11:10 GMT on Saturday, ahead of a planned touchdown slated for August 21.
