The Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday that its Luna-25 encountered an unusual situation when a command was sent to enter a pre-landing orbit, but it “could not maneuver according to the required parameters”. .
“Today, according to the flight program of the Luna-25 probe, at 2:10 p.m. Moscow time, the probe was ordered to enter a pre-landing orbit,” the Russian space agency said. The agency said.
“During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on the space probe that did not allow it to maneuver according to the required parameters,” Roscosmos said.
JEE News reported that scientists from the command and control team began analyzing the situation after receiving data from Luna-25, which entered lunar orbit on August 16 – the first Russian spacecraft to do so since 1976. The ship was built.
A Russian probe is set to land on the moon’s south pole on Monday as part of the superpowers’ race to explore areas of the moon that scientists say could hold frozen water and precious elements that could support life. Can host
Earlier, Roskosmos said it had received the first results from the Luna-25 mission and they were being analyzed.
The agency also posted images of the moon’s Zeeman crater taken by the spacecraft. He said the crater is the third deepest in the moon’s southern hemisphere, measuring 190 kilometers (118 miles) in diameter and eight kilometers (five miles) deep.
Roskosmos said the data it has received so far has provided information on the chemical composition of the lunar soil and will also facilitate the operation of instruments designed to study the near surface of the moon.
It added that its instruments had recorded a “micrometeorite impact event”.
About the size of a small car, it is intended to operate for a year at the South Pole, where scientists from NASA and other space agencies have detected traces of frozen water in craters in recent years.
The presence of water has implications for larger space powers, potentially allowing for long-term human habitation on the Moon that would enable mining of lunar resources.
