BAKU, Oct. 3 Roscosmos is considering options for shifting the launches of the next Russian interplanetary missions “Luna-26” and “Luna-27” to earlier dates. , said the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov.
«No one is going to fold their arms, and we are determined to continue the lunar program. Moreover, we are considering the possibility of shifting the Luna-26 and Luna-27 missions to the left in order to get the results we need as quickly as possible,» — Borisov told reporters on Tuesday.
The Luna-25 mission became the first domestic lunar station in almost 50 years and was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on August 11, but ultimately proved unsuccessful. The engine of Luna-25, when trying to switch to a pre-drop orbit, worked for 127 seconds instead of 84, and the device crashed into the Earth’s satellite.
As Roscosmos reported earlier on Wednesday, the most likely cause of the accident is that the angular velocity measurement unit (BIUS-L) was unable to correctly determine which commands to execute first, and transferred control to the on-board complex » zero signals».