Luna 25 crashes: Russian Spacecraft Collides On Moon 

Luna 25 crashes: Russian spacecraft collides on Moon

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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft which was launched to make soft-landing on the south pole

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Russian lunar mission Luna 25 collided with lunar surface due to propulsion manoeuvre deviation

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The crash occurred due to a deviation between actual and calculated parameters of the propulsion maneuver which led Luna-25 to an unintended orbit

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On August 19, by the Luna-25 flight program, an impulse was provided to form its pre-landing elliptical orbit

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At about 14:57 Moscow time, communication with the Luna-25 apparatus was interrupted

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The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get in contact with it did not produce any results

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The crash of Luna-25 will have no impact on the schedule of Chandryaan-3

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ISRO confirmed the landing date and also shared the time of the landing which is 6:04 PM (IST)

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On Sunday, ISRO conducted the second and final round of deboosting of Chandrayaan-3

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