Three of the four stages of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome to bring the Luna-25 automatic station into lunar orbit crashed in the Khabarovsk Territory. This was announced by the regional governor Mikhail Degtyarev in a statement. telegraph channel.
According to him, the elements of the rocket fell 28 km into the village of Shakhtinsky, between the Nizhny Desh and Tastakh rivers. Three digits were found immediately, the search for the fourth digit continues.
Degtyarev added that the residents of Shakhtinsky – 18 people – were evacuated an hour before the launch of the rocket.
Luna-25 was delivered to the Vostochny cosmodrome in July of this year. The aim of the project is to send an automated probe to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The module was expected to land near the Boguslavsky crater.
The launch of the previous domestic station “Luna-24” took place in 1976.
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