The Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module which had lost contact minutes before making the iconic soft landing on the South pole of Lunar surface on wee hours of Saturday has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Sivan informed on Sunday.
India’s mission to soft-land on moon suffered a setback during the wee hours on Saturday, with Chandrayaan-2’s ‘Vikram’ module losing communication with ground stations, just 2.1 km from the lunar surface during its final descent.
Efforts to establish communication is under process.
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