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Russian Luna 25 crashed into the moon's surface, ending the country's first lunar mission in decades.

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The incident happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was cut off, which dealt a setback to Russia's aspirations in space took place.

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Russian space agency Roscosmos informed that we had lost the communication with Luna 25 at 2:57 PM Moscow time on Saturday.

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The trajectory of the mission Luna-25 allows it to outperform India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, that was launched in mid-July, both missions were on a mission to the moon's south pole.

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Roscosmos stated, an error occurred during the operation on the automatic station stopped the manoeuvre from being carried out according to the specified parameters.

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Luna-25 was Russia's first moon mission since 1976, rocket was launched out from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 3,450 miles (5,550 km) east of Moscow, at 2:11 am on Aug 11.