Russia seems to have lost contact with its first lunar probe in half a century

"The management team is currently analyzing the situation."

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[Slyne]

It's doubtful, but not impossible, that someone took advantage of downtime and sent disruptive commands to the spacecraft. If it broadcasts a rickroll or the bayractar song before crashing, I'm gonna cheer.

Not me. We're way past Schadenfreude by now, and I'd rather Russia be forced to contemplate the consequences of their decisions than them being able to blame (again, but correctly for once) foreign agents and sabotage.