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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
(www.bbc.com)
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No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was
There was a moon in the way
Cutting corners due to the money being spirited away by corrupt officials. This is Russia after all.
Nah, it was obviously sabotage by Western Ukrainian gay Nazis.
NATO's secret moon base lasers shot it down
Stop…everyone knows it’s moon Nazis. Haven’t you seen Iron Sky?
That's part of the cause, not the reason why it actually failed. The people at Roscosmos do work pretty hard even though underpaid and understaffed.
Hard to make a rocket when you are afraid of windows above ground floor.
Definitely shouldn't be depending on what design step you're working on, these comments are weird and unproductive.
The burn to slow it down into a low orbit went too long, which made the resulting orbit too low (so low that it intersected the surface).
No word yet on why the burn was too long.
Cause of failure: built in Russia
The front fell off.