22-09-2019, 09:15 AM
India's space agency has located the lander from its failed lunar mission.
India's crashed Vikram lunar lander, part of the nations failed Chandrayaan-2 mission, was located on the lunar surface, according to reports from the Indian Space and Research Organisation, ISRO.
ISRO reported that it was attempting to make contact with the lander, which had been photographed via thermal image from the orbiter.
The mission had entered lunar orbit on August 20th and its lander separated on September 2nd to prep for its eventual descent. The goal was to make a soft landing and deploy a robotic lunar rover to search for water near the south pole of the moon.
The space agency said, however, that communications were lost at the last minute. Officials said the spacecraft had a normal descent until about 2 km from the surface of the moon.
India has said it hopes to send a trio of astronauts into space by 2022.
(ARNEWSLINE)
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India's crashed Vikram lunar lander, part of the nations failed Chandrayaan-2 mission, was located on the lunar surface, according to reports from the Indian Space and Research Organisation, ISRO.
ISRO reported that it was attempting to make contact with the lander, which had been photographed via thermal image from the orbiter.
The mission had entered lunar orbit on August 20th and its lander separated on September 2nd to prep for its eventual descent. The goal was to make a soft landing and deploy a robotic lunar rover to search for water near the south pole of the moon.
The space agency said, however, that communications were lost at the last minute. Officials said the spacecraft had a normal descent until about 2 km from the surface of the moon.
India has said it hopes to send a trio of astronauts into space by 2022.
(ARNEWSLINE)
From text edition for SEPTEMBER 22 2019 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/
Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2019-09-22.mp3