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MOSCOW, Aug 21 Yury Borisov, General Director of Roscosmos State Corporation, expressed hope that, despite the failure of the Luna-25 mission, subsequent missions to the natural satellite The lands will pass successfully.
«One (one — ed.) of, by the way, the achievements of this albeit unfinished mission is the formation of a new team at the NPO Lavochkin, which, of course, will take into account all the necessary mistakes that were made during this mission, and I hope that the future missions of Luna-26, -27 and -28 will already be successful,» he said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.
As Roskosmos reported earlier, on August 19, after turning on the propulsion system for braking before transferring to the pre-landing orbit, an emergency situation occurred on board the Luna-25 station. As a result, the station collided with the surface of the Earth's natural satellite.