MOSCOW, Aug. 21 Scientists from the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM) named after Keldysh of the Russian Academy of Sciences have calculated the exact place where the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station will fall, reported in Monday Institute.
«Mathematical modeling of the trajectory of the Luna-25 spacecraft, carried out by the specialists of the Ballistic Center of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, made it possible to determine the time and place of its encounter with the Moon: 14.58 Moscow time, 42-kilometer Pontecoulant G crater «, the message says.
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 a natural satellite of the Earth.
As Yury Borisov, Director General of Roskosmos, later clarified, the engine, which was supposed to issue a braking impulse, did not turn off in time and worked for 127 seconds instead of 84 calculated.