India has become the fourth country to successfully land on the lunar surface, four years after a high-profile crash landing, says this RMIT University physics lecturer.
spectacular Russian failure
The moon is the only celestial location humans have visited . It makes sense to go there first: It’s the closest planetary body to us, at a distance of around 400,000km. Missions from Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Russia, the European Space Agency, Luxembourg, South Korea and Italy have also had some measure of lunar success with fly-bys, orbiters and impacts .On Aug 19, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that “communication with the Luna 25 spacecraft was interrupted”, after an impulse command was sent to the spacecraft to lower its orbit around the Moon.
We could compare uncrewed with crewed missions: Around 98 per cent of the latter are successful, because people are more invested in people. Ground staff working to support a crewed mission will be more focused, management will invest more resources, and delays will be accepted to prioritise the safety of the crew.
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