Accelerometer Malfunction Prompted Luna-25 Module to Crash Into Moon – Roscosmos

Accelerometer Malfunction Prompted Luna-25 Module to Crash Into Moon – Roscosmos
 

BAIKONUR (Sputnik) – Russia’s Luna-25 automatic landing module crashed due to a malfunction of the accelerometer that failed to transmit the information needed for the engine to turn off, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Friday.

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