The crash of Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft into the moon over the weekend isn’t just a setback for President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to overcome war-related sanctions.
It’s also an embarrassment for Chinese President Xi Jinping — Putin’s partner in building a proposed base on the moon meant to challenge the US and its space allies.
Now that the mission has ended in failure, Chinese media reports on the crash have been far and few between, with the official Xinhua news agency only carrying a terse five-sentence missive on Sunday. “We will have to learn everything again,” space historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told privately owned Russian media group RBC. “We must learn how to confidently fly to the moon, land confidently on its surface, and only after that proceed with the implementation of grandiose plans alone, either with China or with other countries.”
Behind the scenes, China already recognizes that Russia is of limited value as a space partner, said Pavel Luzin, a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and a researcher on space policy.
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