The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole.

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

  • CethinEnglish
    51•1 year ago

    Huh. I don’t see any hexbears or Lemmygrads on this thread. Interesting. Can’t complain.

    • @[email protected]
      32•1 year ago

      God it is validating to see you say that. I’m new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It’s exhausting.

        • @[email protected]
          20•1 year ago

          Also the fact that they all act like /r/the_donald trolls

          Nothing makes me less inclined to hear out your opinion when you’re acting like a middle schooler whose trying to look cool in front of his friends lol

      • CethinEnglish
        19•1 year ago

        Tankies used to care about communism. Now they’re just anti-western. They will not question if Russia or China are actually communist because it doesn’t matter. They don’t care about worker protections or freedoms. They only care about “owning the west.”

        • @[email protected]
          6•1 year ago

          Yeah I find them rather funny… I’m antiamerican and leftist but many seem to think that it’s a binary and we must choose.

          Having actually lived and worked in China for the CPC, I find their idolizing of the modern Chinese nation-state a bit laughable

      • @uis
        6•1 year ago

        Fuck Putin, fuck Stalin. Peace to world, glory to science and production, mechanize ancillary work, reduce manual labour.

        Here’s a little bit of communism you didn’t want.

        • CethinEnglish
          11•1 year ago

          Not communists. (Also, most of them have never made a commit. They didn’t do anything.)

          Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn’t matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can’t own it.

          I don’t care about their personal beliefs of any one of the contributers. As long as the software works, that’s fine. I like rocketry, but the nazis contributed a lot to that. It doesn’t matter though. It doesn’t change the function of it.

          • @uis
            -2•1 year ago

            Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn’t matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can’t own it.

            You sound like communist

            • CethinEnglish
              7•1 year ago

              Yeah, I would mostly agree with that. More of an anarchist bent, but sure. I’m not a tanky. I have no issue with communism, but I do have an issue with authoritarianism, especially authoritarianism that uses the name communism as a cover while not protecting worker rights and freedoms.

            • @Intralexical
              8•1 year ago

              God it is validating to see you say that. I’m new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It’s exhausting.

              Those communists are the ones who built the platform you’re speaking on.

              I just meant this place wouldn’t exist without some of these “communists” and since they made it and were here for years before most of us, it’s not surprising there’s a lot of communist content.

              You sound like you’re implying that because they made significant technical contributions to useful software, then that automatically validates their political beliefs, and /u/[email protected] should just put up with it.

                • @Intralexical
                  2•1 year ago

                  Lemmy is social media. It’s entertainment. Maybe there’s a time and place to “put up with” genocide-deniers, but I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to deal with that all the time.

            • CethinEnglish
              6•1 year ago

              Sure, and the software is pretty good. Nazi rockets were also good. It doesn’t mean anything else is good or valid about them. I don’t care if the creator is a tanky (definitely don’t care if they’re a communist) to enjoy the software. It is a useless point to say they created it as a way to justify anything else being good.

              It’s an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.

        • @[email protected]
          7•1 year ago

          And? They don’t run anything but their own instances.

          Its FOSS. they don’t have any ownership over the platform as a whole. If they started trying to fuck with the lemmy source code for their own agenda, then we’d just fork it and carry on as before

      • @uis
        2•1 year ago

        There is nothing communistic in Rogozin

    • Album
      3•1 year ago

      Isn’t Lemmygrad defederated from this instance

      • CethinEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Could be. They aren’t on my home instance. I’ve seen several threads about this and literally none of them, as far as I could see, had any comments from them.