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

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

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was

[–] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago

There was a moon in the way

[–] Banik2008@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cutting corners due to the money being spirited away by corrupt officials. This is Russia after all.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, it was obviously sabotage by Western Ukrainian gay Nazis.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NATO's secret moon base lasers shot it down

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Stop…everyone knows it’s moon Nazis. Haven’t you seen Iron Sky?

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to make a rocket when you are afraid of windows above ground floor.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely shouldn't be depending on what design step you're working on, these comments are weird and unproductive.

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Cause of failure: built in Russia

[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The front fell off.