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Russia’s first moon mission in decades fails after spacecraft collides with surface: The incident happened after communication with the spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitio (kbin.social)
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Russia’s first moon mission in decades fails after spacecraft collides with surface: The incident happened after communication with the spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html
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[–] teft@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

As much as the Russian government sucks it still really hurts to see a spacecraft die like this. Hopefully they can get some info out of the mission to help diagnose what went wrong.