Russia's Luna-25 has Crashed into the Moon

Russia's Luna 25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after it spun out of control, the country's space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday. The spacecraft was Russia's first moon mission in 47 years.A day after Roskosmos reported a problem in shunting Luna 25 into a pre-landing orbit, measures taken on August 19 and 20 to locate the craft and make contact with it were unsuccessful.

The Russian space agency Roskosmos said that the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has ceased to exist after it crashed into the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft was launched in 2011 with the aim of collecting samples from the surface of Phobos, one of Mars' moons. However, the spacecraft malfunctioned and was unable to reach Phobos. Instead, it entered an unpredictable orbit and eventually crashed into the Moon.

An abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station during the operation, which prevented the manoeuvre from being performed with the specified parameters. Communication with Luna 25 was lost at 11:57 GMT on Saturday.The space agency will investigate the crash, but has not released any information about what may have caused it.The failure of the Russian moon mission is a sign of the country's decline as a space power. Russia has not attempted a moon mission since 1976, and this latest failure shows that it is no longer capable of competing with other spacefaring nations.

India's Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft is set to land on the moon's south pole this week, competing with other countries with advanced lunar ambitions.

Is the crash of Luna-25 affects the schedule of Chandrayaan-3?

The crash of Luna-25 will have no effect on the timeline of Chandryaan-3, and India's lunar mission is on track to make a gentle landing on the moon's south pole on August 23. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has confirmed the landing date and time, which is 6:04 PM (IST). ISRO completed the second and final cycle of Chandrayaan-3 deboosting on Sunday.

The ambitious Chandrayaan-3 mission by the Indian Space Research Organization aims to demonstrate critical technologies required to land the spacecraft on the Moon's south pole.The Chandrayaan-3 mission carries a scientific instrument designed to study the thermo-physical properties of the lunar regolith, lunar seismicity, lunar surface plasma environment, and plasma and elemental composition in the vicinity of the landing site. ISRO officials informed PTI that the scientific instruments on the lander and the rover are aligned with the theme of 'Science from the Moon' and include spectro-polarimetric signatures of the Earth from the lunar orbit.