The Luna-25 probe, Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the Moon after an incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.
Communication with Luna-25 was lost at 2:57 pm on Saturday , Roscosmos said in a statement. According to preliminary findings, the lander"has ceased to exist following a collision with the Moon's surface"
"Thrust was released to transfer the probe onto the pre-landing orbit," Roscosmos said in a statement. The lander, Russia's first such mission in almost 50 years, was successfully placed in the Moon's orbit on Wednesday after being launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the country's Far East. In June, Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov told President Vladimir Putin that such missions were"risky", with an estimated success probability of around 70 percent.
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