Exactly. Would be a shame if it goes to waste.
But it sure seems pretty doomed.
"During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to be performed with the specified parameters," Roskosmos said in a short statement.
ESA's PILOT-D navigation demonstration camera was planned to be flown on this mission, but is already being procured from a commercial service provider and will fly along with them on their mission,[27] due to continued international collaboration having been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.[28][29] The demonstrative instrument was supposed to collect data for the landing of other missions and was therefore not part of the probe's operating system.[30]
Doesn't sound like it was a critical part of the mission.
So you think until this point the western media narrative has been: "Ukraine is the only former USSR member that has no corruption."? Seems pretty wild to me I don't know
It ain't over until it's over