Russia's Luna 25 Mission - Making JWST Development Look Smooth 

I own a piece of Luna 24. They sold pieces of the recovery pods back in the 90's.

Talking to scientists at IKI, one of things they really wanted to do was to get a Luna mission on the Moon before _all_ of the old guard with lunar experience retired or died, so the young guys running things could benefit from their experience. Looks like they made it (just). Note the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), a crucial instrument looking for water on the LRO, was built and is operated by IKI in Moscow and has returned a lot of good data.

I wouldn't mind a whole episode on the Luna 24 mission. It gets overlooked a lot due to being around the same time as Apollo 17

The little space non-race to the lunar South Pole between Russia and India is quite interesting to follow along with, but even more interesting to learn the history of!

This is the first time I’ve heard of the Russian space program in the news in a LONG TIME. (Not counting iss related stuff).

Well, crossing my fingers for both missions. 😊 Thanks for all the info, Scott! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

It's looking like Luna 25 is going to end up on the latest list of Russian and Soviet lunar mission failures.

May a soft landing be with Luna 25 and Vikram.❤ Greetings to all space enthusiasts from Argentina.

Delay from supplier, fuck up, change of management, delay again, cut funds, change of concept, delay, fuck up, change of management and so on. Basically the story of this mission.

The Soyuz rocket was also used to launch Venus Express. As a side note, the R-7 was originally designed as a ballistic missile, although most vehicles that became operational were orbital launch vehicles with the Soyuz-2 being the latest in that line.

That’s a savage title. Can’t wait to finish the video.

I love how there's something exciting almost every week in space exploration. Looking forward to the landings.

Thank you for all the work you put into this and sharing the amazing amount of institutional memory you have developed about the business and science of space travel/exploration!

Best wishes for Luna and Chandrayan 🎉

Well I hope they both land safely. Enough with the crashes already!

Another good one. Thx for all the good original content

I look forward to Scott's follow up video now that Luna-25 has had an unintended "Hard landing" on the Moon.

4:10 - "The lander failed because it crash landed at the speed of sound". Scott brushes it aside like he wasn't trying to say something funny. I nearly fell out of my chair.

We can always depend on Scott to explain the technical details of an inter-planetary probe. "Stick a needle in it!" 👍🤣

Looks like they did not land successfully but India did. As you point out, this is a totally untried system, so not a real shocker to fail on first attempt. What I find to be a real shame is that Russia has some fine engineers and scientists who worked in this project, but were hamstrung by the political environment they’re stuck in.

Great video, Scott...👍

Womp, womp!

Scott, great video, thanks for sharing!

Thank you, Scott, for the very concise and detailed summary about the Russian LUNA 25.

The Vernera spacecraft were remarkable craft- landing on the most hostile surface in the system - Mars by comparison is like a quiet field on earth !

Ruski shipski go smashski... Cordialement,

I am in the middle of watching this, 5 days after it was published, just minutes oast Midnight on what is now the morning of August 21, and then Scott's short vid about the craft crashing into the Moon popped up as available to view. I still continued to watch this becase he makes good videos and there was no need to hurt his watch time statistics. :-)

Awesome coverage

darn, the Russian curse strikes again! They might be able to recover, but it doesn't sound good. Today at 11:10 UTC, an impulse was given to transfer the spacecraft to a pre-landing orbit. During the operation, an emergency situation occurred, which didn't allow the maneuver to be performed as planned. Currently, the specialists are analyzing the situation.

That rocket got some unique launch pad

Would love to hear your take on the Lunokhod rover, it seemed so ahead of its time!

I made a semi replica of LUNAR-A in Juno: New Origins, Quite a rare satellite to see be spoken about so it's nice to see it

It has landed Scott, early waiting for your video about it. Greetings from India 🇮🇳

James Oberg had a nice quote about the Russian program in 2019. "You can count the number of successful planetary and lunar probes they've made over past 30 years on the fingers of no hands."

Thanks, Scott!

All the best India and Russia two spacecraft will land on next week if everything goes right 🙌

I wish everyone could see the importance of what the Webb telescope will capture! The results will fascinate billions. Luna 25, I hope everything (literally) unfolds successfully!

After crash of Russian Luna 25 Now world has eyes on Indian Chandrayan 3. Its Orbotor is already rotating arround moon. The Lander Vikram is separated from Orbitor 3 days ago. Its lading is Scheduled on Aug 23, 2023 at 18:05 O' clock indian Time (GMT 12:55 hr )

Is that an authentic vintage napster T-shirt? What a flex 🙃

When it all comes down we are all humans and I wish them luck.

It wasnt a crash, it was a special landing operation

Would love to see both Indian and Russian landers on the moon and racing to publish more scientific data

Such a long and interesting history of this mission and spacecraft used.

Well Scotty old Laddy, I think you jinxed it! Showing that nice thumbnail of the Russian spacecraft Luna 25 safely down on the moon and saying it's going to land in such and such crater, soon. Well, it has crash landed, so I guess that is a "landing"; at least it made it there. Not that easy. But as many have found out lately it's not so easy to get to the moon, and then also land right side up. We did it many times of course, over 50 years ago, but many of those engineers and scientists and astronauts are long gone. So, what are we left with today? Well, keep trying boys and girls, you'll get there someday. But, again, Scotty, we have an old saying in the USA that you may have heard of: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch". That said, good luck to the Indian moon craft, I hope it lands safely, we need the competition from someone else for deep space missions. Helps with congressional budgets for space, to always be ahead of some folks, especially from our enemies like Russia and China, but we cheer on our allies, like India and Japan, even Europe. LOL. Would also be nice to see someone try to launch more missions to the outer planets too, and maybe go beyond the solar system, it's been a long time since we did that, eh!! LOL ;D

As you predicted here, Scott Luna 25 did have "trouble". It crash landed on the Moon on the 20th August.

and then it went *BOOM!!* on the *Moon*

Thanks so much on giving us a much needed timely primer on Luna 25. I was wondering what the 24 was

Hi Scott! Fly safe!

This aged like milk! Luna 25 crashed!!

Asianometry has posted a great history of Russian planet probes and their unfortunate failures.

Loving these space exploration videos by Scott!

You are a very good RU-vidr.❤

Can we also expect a successor to the. Lunokhod missions? Those rovers look just too cute! 😍

Well, I guess that is what happens if you prioritize landing in other countries than on the Moon.

*NAPSTER* shirt, FTW! 🤘☺️🤘 A great era of music discovery, for those of us looking for remixes, etc. Thankfully, a void that now YT has filled. ❤

7:40 - ESA cancelled "Exomars co-op" with Roscosmos, not the other way around.

Chandryan 3 successfully landed on the moon 💙🇮🇳

They make Boeing look good.

State Corporation Roscosmos, [8/20/23 4:47AM] On August 19, in accordance with the flight program of the Luna-25 spacecraft, an impulse was provided to form its pre-landing elliptical orbit. At about 14:57 Moscow time, communication with the Luna-25 spacecraft was interrupted. The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not produce any results. According to the results of a preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of the actual parameters of the impulse from the calculated ones, the device switched to an off-design orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface. A specially formed interdepartmental commission will deal with the issues of clarifying the reasons for the loss of the Moon.

Thank you.

Well Luna 25 Crashed in the moon Scott I think that means India wins by default if they don't also crash.

Well I guess technically they were faster on the surface of the Moon then India Great success

So... They crash...

Congratulations

Well, turns out it was a really short mission, this Luna 25.

Roskosmos has announced that Luna 25 has entered lunar orbit, after two "burns" - the first at 11:57 Moscow time for 243 seconds, the second by soft landing engines for 76 seconds. All Luna-25 systems are functioning normally.

Wehrner, Glushko, Chelomei, Goddard, Korolyev, Bubbles. It's all up in the air, Scott. especially Bubbles.

thank you

I'm hoping the Luna Glob program will succeed, because if that happens the West will increase funding for Lunar exploration. It is closely tied to Sino-Russian crewed missions too. Artemis/CLPS needs competition.

I saw you at launch translation chat! :)

Cheers!!

Just noticed Daniel Hardcastles book, f*ck yeah video games! In the backround.

Brutal title, I love it. :)

On the off-chance that Scott reads this, or perhaps the question has been answered before and someone here knows: what is the story of the framed portrait sketch on the wall on the right behind him? I think it says 'for Scott' and for some reason I wonder about that picture every single time I watch a Scott Manley video. I got a Corto Maltese vibe from it, but the signature doesn't look like Hugo Pratt. Anyone? I've been wondering about this for months now...

Thanks

This should be a space race all involved push the boundaries of what can be done we need more of that in space.

Scott, "Don't. Mention. The War!"

Love the Napster shirt !

Another interesting t-shirt on Scott ...

Interesting that landing on the moon seems to be a lot harder than the 60s/70s missions made it look like

Great video. These are the Manley videos that I really enjoy and learn from - his deep space update podcasts no so much. I would much rather Scott spent his resources publishing in-depth videos about space technology [such as this one]. I can get regular info on space launches and events from a plethora of sources but I can get Scott's in-depth analysis/tutorial/history of space and technology from only one source - Scott himself.

Dang it Scott Manley, I hate and love you. Keep up the good work.

I think if you turn Luna 25 upside down and look at the connected tanks, compartments and legs there's still some hint of the old Luna 16/17/20/21/24 descent stage heritage - which later was adapted into what became Fregat.

Luna 25 has been lost.

Best of luck India and Russia ❤

The one instrument they forgot to include is an impact detector…

Goodluck to luna and Vikram 🥰

Welp….

Just saw a BBC report and the Russian Space agency have stated that the space craft no longer exists!

Nice

Scott how many spacecraft/probes are orbiting the moon ?

On August 16 2023 Luna-25 supposed to make Trans-Lunar Injection, enter circular polar orbit around the Moon on the height of about 100 km and make soft landing on August 21, 22 or 23 on one of the planned 3 sites, all in South Polar Zone, south of 70 degrees. Indian craft supposed to do the same in the same South Polar Zone, but later on August 24. If both craft succeeded it will be boost for Lunar exploration and competition, that will benefit entire Humankind in long term.

Ineratial Measurement Unit? Isn't this the weird device that does funny things with starting Proton rockets?

Thanks for your great videos! Don’t forget that next weekend is the Opposition of Saturn! The closest it’ll will be to Earth all year!

"... liking the space flight is like liking a Michael Jackson album; you know there maybe some good stuff going on, but there is some dark stuff underneath.."

This video aged not so well....they didn't flew safe Scott! :)

will you talk about India's next first Solar Mission Aditya L1 to be launched soon

Good wishes for both the luna 25 and chandrayaan3

The Michael Jackson allusion was perfect.

Oops!!!!!!! The inhabitants of the moon don't want visitors!!! 😮😮😮😮😮