Russia's Luna-25 crashes before planned to land on Moon's South Pole

Russia's space agency Roscosmos on Sunday confirmed that its Luna-25 has crash-landed on Moon.

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"At about 14:57 Moscow time, communication with the Luna-25 spacecraft was interrupted," the space agency said in a statement on Telegram

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the device switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface

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"A specially formed interdepartmental commission will deal with the issues of clarifying the reasons for the loss of the Moon."

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Luna-25 crash-landed just a day before its planned touchdown on the south pole of the Moon

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Luna-25 was launched on August 10 and entered into lunar orbit on August 16.

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It was to soft-land on Monday, two days before India's Chandyraan

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"Roskomos hasn't denied it, and there's been no contact with the spacecraft for the last 10 hours,"

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Indian space agency Isro, in its latest update, said Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the Moon on August 23, around 18:04 PM.

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