This was a peaceful endeavors from Russia that should be encouraged. There’s no need to compare this specific mission to the invasion of Ukraine.
International scientific collaboration is one of the few things that can keep diplomacy going amongst rivals.
Honestly not surprising - the Russian war against Ukraine has demonstrated how hollow Russia is, and the brain drain has been constant. Russia has proven incompetent at space, especially when it comes to telling the truth.
That is all true and I’m not claiming to understand the cause here of the mission failure, I do want to add to the conversation that failure rates on space missions are high for all nations historically.
We’ve gotten better at it but it’s never reliable throwing things into the cosmos!
It was supposed to land tomorrow, so if it crashed today, that means they couldn’t even get the craft into a lunar orbit.
ISRO > Roscosmos
kek.
Probably sent their best engineers to die in Ukraine.
