Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov said that the cause of the crash of Russia’s automatic interplanetary station Luna-25 was faulty accelerometers. RIA News.
“The correction engine did not stop working based on information from the accelerometer. It is the device that indicates changes in speed. This is because the accelerometers did not turn on,” the head of the state agency said at a press conference.
He stated that experts are trying to determine the causes of the incident. According to Borisov, there are currently 16 versions, 11 of which are confirmed. According to him, the investigation into the causes of the station accident is planned to be completed by the end of September.
Alexander Zheleznyakov, formerly a member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Cosmonautics Academy named Russian cosmonautics benefits from the crash of Luna 25.
The launch of the Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the first domestic lunar station took place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on August 11 at 2:11 Moscow time. The device entered lunar orbit on August 16. It was assumed that the transition to pre-landing orbit and the soft landing at the South Pole of the Moon would occur on August 19 and 21, respectively. However, on August 19, Roscosmos reported an emergency at the station that did not allow transition to pre-landing orbit with the specified parameters. The next day, the government agency announced that Luna-25 had gone into an off-design orbit, collided with the Moon, and ceased to exist.
Later, the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, announced that the cause of the incident was that the Luna-25 engine exceeded the engine speed for 43 seconds while trying to enter orbit before landing, which caused the device to collide with the aircraft. Earth’s satellite. He also said that the emergency commission for Luna-25 has started work and should find out in detail the reasons for the abnormal operation of the correction engine in the near future.
Russian scientists before was created Vodka-powered space engines.