“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” read a statement from the agency.
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ffs that’s a really wordy way of saying “it crashed.”
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“ceased to exist” - No, it still exists, just in more pieces than when it left the earth, and in a much larger area than originally intended. Still exists, though.
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I’m disappointed with russia. They could have spun it into a successful drone attack on Ukrainian military moon base, or a military moon kindergarten.
On one hand, landing a spacecraft remotely is hard at the best of times. On the other hand, going by what we’ve seen of the state of the Russian military, I’d put money on someone involved in the project having replaced some expensive components/materials with junk, pocketed the saving and put it into real estate abroad. Spacecraft blow up all the time, out in space nothing can be proven, and if you don’t, someone else will.
Although Russia can go kick rocks and gargle some deseased old mans balls for invading Ukraine, it still sucks that they crashed the lander. On the other hand, I kinda hope for some sort of new space race where hopefully something good comes around, not just the old nukes-in-space shit…
Welp, India
iswas just a tiny bit behind Russia. Their Chandrayaa-3 is set to land on Moon’s south pole in less than 3 days.
In other news, the director of the Luna-25 mission has also had a fatal encounter with gravity.
Well, technically, it landed…
Really fitting news for sh.itjust.works. Or not.
