Roscosmos General Manager Yuri Borisov said that the state agency knows everything about the location of the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station, the TV channel reported. “Russia 24”.
“The whole experiment was conducted in a fixed radio zone, we knew everything about the position of the ship,” he said.
However, communication with the Luna-25 was lost at 14:57 minutes, as the head of Roscosmos noted, attempts to restore it were unsuccessful.
“Preliminary ballistics calculations showed that due to abnormal operation of the corrective propulsion system, the device went into an open lunar orbit and actually crashed into the Moon’s surface,” he added.
Before that, Alexander Zheleznyakov, a member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics judicial Pros of the accident “Luna-25” for Russian cosmonautics.
The day before, Roskosmos reported that the Luna-25 station was “not available” as a result of a collision with the lunar surface. Communication with it was lost on August 19 when an impulse was given to create a pre-landing elliptical orbit. After Russia’s first mission to the moon in 47 years failed – Material “socialbites.ca”.
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