If the Kremlin were to be believed, there was nothing wrong with its lunar lander's demise. Officials are seeing the crash as a rallying cry.
On August 19, Russia's lunar lander failed to make an important adjustment to its orbit, an "emergency situation" that "did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters," according to aNonetheless, the country is already planning to follow up its failed mission with Luna-26 through Luna-28, increasingly ambitious steps in Russia's lunar program.
Luna-27 is designed to explore the composition of the lunar soil near the Moon's south pole, which isn't unlike the experiment India's Chandrayaan-3 mission isYet in large part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many of the country's international partners have since pulled out, meaning that the country will likely have to blaze its own path.
"We know that the way to the stars is through thorns," Peskov added. "The main thing is to continue the Russian program."
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