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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon -- Roscosmos

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STORY: Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon -- Roscosmos
DATELINE: Aug. 20, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:57
LOCATION: Moscow
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/SCIENCE

SHOTLIST:
1. file photo of Luna-25
2. illustration of the project
3. photo taken by Luna-25 on Aug. 15
4. photo of Moon surface taken by Luna-25 on Aug. 17
5. animated illustration of the project published by Roscosmos earlier

STORYLINE:

Russia's Luna-25 module has crashed into the moon after it went into an unplanned orbit, Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos said Sunday.
   
"At around 14:57 Moscow time (1157 GMT), the connection with the automatic lunar probe was lost," Roscosmos said in a statement.
   
"Preliminary analysis results show that a deviation between the actual and calculated parameters of the propulsion maneuver led the Luna-25 spacecraft to enter an undesignated orbit and it ceased to exist following a collision with the surface of the Moon," it said.
   
According to Roscosmos, a specially formed interdepartmental commission will investigate the cause of the crash.
   
The Luna-25 mission, the first Russian spacecraft in more than four decades, headed to the moon on Friday at 02:11 Moscow time (2311 GMT Thursday) on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport located in the Amur Oblast in Russia's Far East.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow.
(XHTV)

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