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Re:Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray tel... by goku12 on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:10AM (#37464690)
Of all the recent failures of moon landers, Luna 25 is the most intriguing one. It failed simply because the retro-burn continued too long. It was a simple timed operation, unlike all the complex logic that goes into landing. Makes me wonder about the state of the Russian space programme.
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Re:Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray tel... by bigDinosaur on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:24AM (#37465203)
The most recent former head of the agency has apparently expressed skepticism about the US moon landings in 1969 and also has a degree in economics. Allegedly the program has been hollowed out by corruption. Perhaps someone more qualified to comment could shed some light on this?
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Re:Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray tel... by dotnet00 on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:42AM (#37465793)
If you mean Dmitry Rogozin, then yeah, he was a total dick (a part of which he has allegedly lost recently in Ukraine) who peddled all sorts of lies and oversaw the decline of Russian space capabilities.

I wouldn't be surprised if he expressed doubt over the Moon landings considering that he was also the one to push the absurd claim that the hole that had been drilled into a Soyuz was sabotage done by a space-crazed American female astronaut.

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Re:Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray tel... by nkoren on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:00AM (#37465952)
This wouldn't be the first time that they've lost a major mission due to a similarly simple root cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)
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Re:Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray tel... by verzali on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:06AM (#37467475)
The Russian space program is a real mess and a shadow of what it once was.
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