Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit after reporting an “abnormal situation” that its specialists were analysing.
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00:00 Russia's Lunar 25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon, the country's space agency said
00:05 on Sunday, after spinning into uncontrolled orbit.
00:09 Roscosmos said it lost contact with the probe on Saturday after it ran into trouble while
00:14 preparing for its pre-landing orbit.
00:17 Lunar 25 was scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, racing to reach
00:22 the surface ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
00:25 The unmanned robot lander is the first launched by Russia since 1976, when it was part of
00:31 the Soviet Union.
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