Russian space agency Roscosmos on Sunday said its Luna-25 probe completed a near-perfect landing on the surface of the Earth’s barren satellite world, the AP reports citing official statements.
“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon,” said Roscosmos, being kind of glass half empty about it since they did make it to the moon. “During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” the agency wrote in a Telegram post, really being too hard on themselves for a little mess-up.
It’s not clear yet if the Roscosmos personnel responsible for the failure ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the pavement outside of a tall government building.