I know there isn’t a lot of information available yet, but I’m not above playing Monday morning quarterback. What do you think about this incident?
Russianspaceweb.com has some interesting info on the probe.
CBC has a decent article that doesn’t seem to be paywalled.
My money is on the guidance system since according to the article that’s an area they made a lot of changes to and we themselves concerned about.
Sucks for them, will for sure delay future missions like Luna-26 and Luna-27. India’s ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 is set to land near the lunar south pole.
I read a rumor that the Chandrayaan-3 schedule was part of the cause of the crash. Allegedly, Roscosmos knew their probe had a problem which would take time to resolve, but there was political pressure to hurry up and land before Chandrayaan-3 stole the spotlight. Seems totally plausible.
I imagine it yeeted itself into the moon TerminalMontage style
