FILE – In this picture created from video launched by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 computerized station takes off from a launch pad on the Vostochny Cosmodrome within the Russian Far East on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

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FILE – In this picture created from video launched by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 computerized station takes off from a launch pad on the Vostochny Cosmodrome within the Russian Far East on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

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MOSCOW — The Russian house company says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon.

Russia’s unmanned robotic lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the nation’s house company Roscosmos reported.

The launch earlier this month was Russia’s first since 1976 when it was a part of the Soviet Union. The crash comes after Roscosmos reported an “abnormal situation” that its specialists have been analyzing on Saturday.

“During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos stated in a Telegram submit.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, racing to land on Earth’s satellite tv for pc forward of an Indian spacecraft.

The lunar south pole is of explicit curiosity to scientists, who consider the completely shadowed polar craters might comprise water. The frozen water within the rocks might be remodeled by future explorers into air and rocket gasoline.