Russia's Luna-25 moon mission ended in failure, with Roskosmos announcing that its craft 'ceased to exist' after crashing into the lunar surface Sunday.
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Russia's spaceflight group, Roskosmos, announced the failure in a statement, saying the craft ran into a problem as it attempt to enter a pre-landing orbit. The Luna-25 spacecraft had been scheduled to land on Monday, but Roskosmos says it careened out of control and crashed into the moon around 12:00 GMT on Saturday.
Roskosmos says a commission has been set up to investigate the cause for the failure. It was Russia's first trip to lunar orbit since 1976. The probe was intended to search for frozen water on the lunar surface, but the international prestige of the mission was far more important for the"Study of the moon is not the goal," Russian space analyst Vitaly Egorov said previously of the mission."The goal is political competition between two superpowers — China and the USA — and a number of other countries which also want to claim the title of space superpower.
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