The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Based on what I know about Russia they would probably claim moon as part of Russia and then bomb the 1969 moon landing site with cluster munitions. Fuck em

[–] trooperjess@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

No, that would be what the US had planned to do. This was right after spudink as to one up the USSR.