An engineer from the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences called the Luna-25 project an excellent experience.

MOSCOW, April 10 The mission of the Luna-25 space station, which fell on the surface of the Earth’s satellite, is an excellent experience, scientists take it into account in their work on the following projects, said engineer of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) Vladislav Yakovlev.
«I would not say that this is a failure. I would say that this is a great experience. We survived, we are working on further projects, there is a lot of work. We accept the experience gained with the previous mission,» Yakovlev said at the XXI Conference of Young Scientists «Fundamental and applied space research.»

Earlier, the director of the Institute of Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Petrukovich, said that the next Russian lunar stations will fly along a longer trajectory so that they can be more accurately controlled and eliminate the accident that occurred with Luna-25.

For the first time in almost 50 years, Russia launched a device to the natural satellite of the Earth on August 11, 2023. On August 19, the Luna-25 station crashed on the surface of the Moon due to malfunction of the engine.