<p>The failure of Russia's Luna-25 moon mission will have no impact on ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 lunar venture, according to top Indian space scientists.</p>.<p>The Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on August 20.</p>.<p> "It does not have any impact,' K Sivan, who was heading ISRO when the Chandrayaan-2 mission was launched in 2019, told <em>PTI</em> on Monday when asked if ISRO would be under additional pressure ahead of the soft landing, following the Russian setback.</p>.India’s Chandrayaan-3 and Russia’s Luna-25: Race to Moon's south pole heats up.<p>Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander module with a rover in its belly is expected to touch down on the surface of the Moon around 6.04 pm on Wednesday, ISRO had said on Sunday.</p>.<p> "It (Chandrayaan-3 mission) is going on as per plan. It (soft landing) will be done accordingly, Sivan said. 'We are hoping that this time (unlike Chandrayaan-2) it (the touchdown) will be successful".</p> .<p>Former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair dismissed talk in some quarters that India and Russia were engaged in a race to the Moon, and termed the crash-landing of Luna-25 as unfortunate.</p> .<p> "I know the (lander) module. It was ready way back in 2008. When I visited the lab (in Russia), they showed me the module. They didn't have the resources to fly (then), so it had been kept in cold storage for a long time. Now only they had resources (to launch)," he told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.As Chandrayaan-3 set for soft-landing, here is when India knowingly crashed spacecraft on Moon.<p>Ruling out any impact on the Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on July 14, Nair said India's venture is totally self-sufficient and 'we are not dependent on them (Russia)'. Right now, India's space cooperation with Russia is limited to training of Indian astronauts for the Gaganyaan human space flight mission.</p>.<p>"So, had it (Luna-25) landed, our data and their (Russian) data (collected based on experiments on the lunar surface) would have been complementary," he said. </p>
<p>The failure of Russia's Luna-25 moon mission will have no impact on ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 lunar venture, according to top Indian space scientists.</p>.<p>The Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on August 20.</p>.<p> "It does not have any impact,' K Sivan, who was heading ISRO when the Chandrayaan-2 mission was launched in 2019, told <em>PTI</em> on Monday when asked if ISRO would be under additional pressure ahead of the soft landing, following the Russian setback.</p>.India’s Chandrayaan-3 and Russia’s Luna-25: Race to Moon's south pole heats up.<p>Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander module with a rover in its belly is expected to touch down on the surface of the Moon around 6.04 pm on Wednesday, ISRO had said on Sunday.</p>.<p> "It (Chandrayaan-3 mission) is going on as per plan. It (soft landing) will be done accordingly, Sivan said. 'We are hoping that this time (unlike Chandrayaan-2) it (the touchdown) will be successful".</p> .<p>Former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair dismissed talk in some quarters that India and Russia were engaged in a race to the Moon, and termed the crash-landing of Luna-25 as unfortunate.</p> .<p> "I know the (lander) module. It was ready way back in 2008. When I visited the lab (in Russia), they showed me the module. They didn't have the resources to fly (then), so it had been kept in cold storage for a long time. Now only they had resources (to launch)," he told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.As Chandrayaan-3 set for soft-landing, here is when India knowingly crashed spacecraft on Moon.<p>Ruling out any impact on the Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on July 14, Nair said India's venture is totally self-sufficient and 'we are not dependent on them (Russia)'. Right now, India's space cooperation with Russia is limited to training of Indian astronauts for the Gaganyaan human space flight mission.</p>.<p>"So, had it (Luna-25) landed, our data and their (Russian) data (collected based on experiments on the lunar surface) would have been complementary," he said. </p>