Russia’s first lunar mission in decades crashes into the moon

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Russia(ロシア)の月着陸船 Lunar 25が、月面に衝突、失敗に終わりました。

CNNのニュースです。

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CNN — Russia’s first lunar mission in decades has ended in failure with its Luna 25 spacecraft crashing into the moon’s surface.

The incident, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions, happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was interrupted.

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost touch with Luna 25 on Saturday around 2:57 p.m. Moscow time.

“The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not yield any results,” the space agency reported.

According to a “preliminary analysis,” Luna-25 “switched to an off-design orbit” before the collision, Roscosmos said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.

A specially formed commission will investigate the reasons for the loss of Luna 25, the agency added.