Moscow:
Russian space agency Roscosmos said an “emergency situation” was detected during an inspection of Russia’s Luna-25 before landing on the moon on Saturday. The problem was encountered at the same time that thrust was released to transfer to pre-landing orbit, Roscosmos said in a statement. During the operation, an emergency situation occurred at the automatic station, due to which the mission could not be maneuvered. .
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Russia’s first such mission lander in nearly 50 years successfully orbited the moon on Wednesday after launching from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the country’s far east. Roscosmos did not say whether the incident would affect Monday’s landing north of the Boguslavsky crater on the moon’s south pole. In June, Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov told President Vladimir Putin that such a mission was “dangerous,” with about a 70 percent chance of success.
It is expected to stay on the moon for a year, where it is tasked with collecting samples and analyzing soil. Cameras on the lander have already taken distant images of the Earth and the Moon from space. Russia is trying to restart and rebuild the Soviet Union’s flagship space program as the future of its long-standing space cooperation with the West looks in doubt amid the aggression in Ukraine.
Russia said it would press ahead with its lunar plans, despite the European Space Agency’s announcement that it would not cooperate with Moscow on future missions over its work in Ukraine.
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