The ill-fated spacecraft was aiming for the intended location of a joint base that space agencies in China and Russia had agreed to build together.
of Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft into the moon over the weekend isn’t just a setback for President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to overcome war-related sanctions.
Now that the mission has ended in failure, Chinese media reports on the crash have been hard to find, with the official Xinhua news agency only carrying a terse five-sentence missive on Sunday.“This failure is expected to deal a blow to Russia’s ambitions,” Hu Xijin, the former editor of the Communist Party-controlled, wrote in an opinion piece for the newspaper, adding that “the West should not underestimate Russia just because its lunar program has failed”.
Russia’s space program has stagnated because of corruption, mismanagement and sanctions, said Bruce McClintock, lead of the RAND Space Enterprise Initiative and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corp. Behind the scenes, China already recognises that Russia is of limited value as a space partner, said Pavel Luzin, a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and a researcher on space policy.
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