NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is sending radio signals to Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander to help ISRO establish communication. NASA's Deep Space Network has been beaming radio frequency to Vikram Lander.
Janta Dal (Secular) leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday irked controversy by making a ridiculous jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Chandrayaan 2 mission failure. Kumaraswamy blamed PM Modi or supposedly bringing “bad luck” for scientists after stepping at the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) centre to watch Chandrayaan-2 mission.
Elaborating, Kumar said that the orbiter this time is equipped with critical instruments aimed at providing excellent results in comparison to Chandrayaan-1, launched more than a decade ago.
Even as serious attempts are being made by Indian space agency to establish communication link with its moon lander Vikram that crashed on to the lunar surface, a Senior Advisor in ISRO has explained in simple terms the landers planned operations.
Lander Vikram has so far not responded to communications from ISRO. The Indian Space agency is in race against time to make the contact with Vikram before September 21.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said officials of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) visited its headquarters and met its Chairman K.Sivan.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
India has its hopes alive on the ambitious Chandrayaan-2 moon mission even as ISRO, the Indian space agency, lost communication with the Vikram lander just some distance away from the lunar surface. It couldn't have a soft landing as planned. But nevertheless, the Indian space agency is trying its level best to establish communication with Vikram lander that has a mission life of 14 days.
Science poses surprises - sometimes failures and sometimes successes, according to Nobel laureate Serge Haroche, who said on Wednesday that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists will certainly try to fix the problem with India's first moon lander.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday found the location of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander, which had lost contact with the space agency from the Moon’s surface due to hard landing. However, in a major breakthrough, the data frozen on the big screens at the Mission Operations Complex at ISRO's Telemetry Tracking and Command Centre suggest a failure in the “fine braking phase” in the final part of Vikram’s journey (an altitude of 5 km to 400 m).
The prayers included 'abishekam' (celestial bath), which was performed with several items, including honey and sandalpaste and followed by a community feast (Annadhanam), a temple official said on Tuesday.
Current status of Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander: The entire world is on tenterhooks, India is still hoping to re-connect with the Vikram Lander again. Infact, ISRO did have pieces of good news in the past some days. Everybody wants to know the current status of Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander, has India been able to re-establish connection with the Vikram Lander, will we ever able to have this Chandrayaan-2 breakthrough, will India be able to realise its moon mission. Well, these questions will be answered with time. Meanwhile, we have some of your questions answered here, according to the Indian space agency.
Chandrayaan-2's lander Vikram had a hard landing on September 7 and an ISRO official told PTI that the lander was "intact and not broken". He also said that "it is in a tilted position. Though the lander hit the Moon's surface hard while landing, it was still very close to the scheduled touchdown site as per the image sent by the orbiter's onboard camera".
ISRO on September 8 found the location of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander, which had lost contact with the space agency 2.1 km away from the Moon’s surface.
Known for his wit and humour, Arshad Warsi shared the hilarious video on his Twitter account. "I had no idea that Pakistan had also launched a rocket", said the actor.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is making every bit of an effort to make contact with the Vikram Lander. Indian dairy brand Amul too is hopeful of the communication and have made a beautiful topical ad on India's moon landing mission.
Mathura's famous 'Chhappan Bhog' this year on September 12 will be dedicated to the Chandrayaan-2 project and ISRO scientists involved in the Moon mission, an officer-bearer of the organising committee said on Monday.
Amidst the Indo-Pak war of words over Kashmir, Pakistan's first female astronaut Namira Salim has congratulated India and ISRO for its Chandrayaan-2 mission, saying the attempt to make a landing on the Moon was itself a "giant leap" for South Asia and as well as for the entire global space industry.
No, Vikram lander has not crashed. India's ambitious moon mission is still alive, and how! While hopes of millions were dashed on September 7 after the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, lost contact with the Chandrayaan-2 lander, India can now breathe a sigh of relief. A day after ISRO located Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on the lunar surface, the Indian space agency came out with yet another good news. ISRO said the Vikram lander is safe, and it has not crashed.
Early on September 7, Vikram while on its descent to soft-land on the lunar's south polar region apparently lost control and crash-landed on the lunar surface snapping communication links.
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