Luna-25 was unable to perform a pre-landing maneuver within “specified parameters,” the Roscosmos space agency said, without providing further details.
. The unmanned spacecraft took off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s eastern Amur region on Aug. 11 local time.It has already sent back images of the moon’s Zeeman crater, and was expected to make a landing on Monday — two days before anis set to touch down. Their race to land on the south pole of the moon comes amid a rush to establish a lunar presence from countries including the United States and China.
Russia’s lander has a 1.6-meter-long robotic arm with a scoop to collect rocks, soil and dust. It is expected to operate for a year on the lunar surface on a
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