NASA fails to find Indian moon lander 'Vikram' and releases images of empty landing site three weeks

[phancong]

The drama is because we are the latest entrants and the project is very big for Indian scientific community....
May be 20 years down the line it won't be celebrated much just like pslv. Just another launch

Too much hype of the moon mission then the mission failed.

 

[kris]

Too much hype of the moon mission then the mission failed.

So??
Similar missions are of little to no meaning to developed countries/agencies like NASA/USA, jaxa....
So what??
Isro shall bounce back with bigger success

 

[jamahir]

The drama is because we are the latest entrants and the project is very big for Indian scientific community....
May be 20 years down the line it won't be celebrated much just like pslv. Just another launch

Isro shall bounce back with bigger success

The Pakistanis on this thread are making fun of ISRO's current failure but what I dearly hope, as I have been saying on PDF for some time, is for a joint manned mission to Mars ( whenever that is possible ) by including India, Pakistan, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Africa, Central Asia, West Asia and North Korea.

 

[American Pakistani]

Vikram was his code name. He was an ISI agent.

 

[phancong]

So??
Similar missions are of little to no meaning to developed countries/agencies like NASA/USA, jaxa....
So what??
Isro shall bounce back with bigger success

Yeah future will behold India great success in space mission but for now, India moon mission end in big failure.

 

[kris]

Yeah future will behold India great success in space mission but for now, India moon mission end in big failure.

Failures are stepping Stones for success....
We accept it

The Pakistanis on this thread are making fun of ISRO's current failure but what I dearly hope, as I have been saying on PDF for some time, is for a joint manned mission to Mars ( whenever that is possible ) by including India, Pakistan, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Africa, Central Asia, West Asia and North Korea.

Arab countries will definitely try to board Indian space missions with money clout. What can pakistan offer

 

[mike2000 is back]

I thought it was long over. why people still talking about this?lol

 

[kingQamaR]

Send out federation starship enterprise to de cloak this Indian Klingon technology?

 

[Imran Khan]

indian lander is there on moon under the dust

 

[jamahir]

Arab countries will definitely try to board Indian space missions with money clout.

Well, the GCC Arab countries are tightly allied with the West. For example, one person from the Saudi royal family, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, flew to space on the American space shuttle in 1985.

What can pakistan offer

The same question can be asked about Rakesh Sharma, the first and only Indian in space. What did he have to offer to the USSR when he flew to space aboard USSR's Soyuz spacecraft ??

It is not so much about what Pakistan can offer. It is more about a common people collaborating on an international level.

 

[kris]

Well, the GCC Arab countries are tightly allied with the West. For example, one person from the Saudi royal family, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, flew to space on the American space shuttle in 1985.



The same question can be asked about Rakesh Sharma, the first and only Indian in space. What did he have to offer to the USSR when he flew to space aboard USSR's Soyuz spacecraft ??

It is not so much about what Pakistan can offer. It is more about a common people collaborating on an international level.

Arab world alignment with wet is nothing new. This doesn't prevent them from joining with us.
India used to be defacto member of Soviet block, brought good amount of weapons.
Good enough reasons are there for such co operation

 

[jamahir]

Arab world alignment with wet is nothing new.

For technicality's sake, it is mainly the GCC Arabs who are aligned with the West.

Syria, a majority-Arab country, is not aligned with the West but with Russia.

This doesn't prevent them from joining with us.

You are right. India under BJP rule may be more attractive to the GCC Arabs because of common aligned interests which are pro-West.

India used to be defacto member of Soviet block, brought good amount of weapons.
Good enough reasons are there for such co operation

India was not a defacto member of the Soviet bloc. India was in the middle. This arrangement was developed first under Nehru who said we are non-aligned, and so he created the IIT universities based on the American model of higher education ( such as the MIT ) along with, as you said, purchase of weaponry from the Soviet bloc.

 

[lonelyman]

NASA fails to find Indian moon lander 'Vikram' and releases images of empty landing site three weeks after it crashed into the lunar surface

• India's moon lander failed to complete its mission on September 6
• It is thought to be in one piece but efforts to find it by NASA have failed
• NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scanned the intended landing site
• Looked at more than 92 miles of the area where Vikram was supposed to be

By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 11:07, 27 September 2019 | UPDATED: 11:13, 27 September 2019

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NASA has failed to spot the remnants of India's doomed moon lander, Vikram, despite desperate attempts to locate the craft at its intended landing site.

NASA was one of the last hopes for the mission and the Indian space agency (ISRO) as they scrabble to reestablish connection with the craft.

Vikram was part of India's Chandrayaan-2 mission which had hoped to make history and turn India into just the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon.

India had intended to follow in the footsteps of space behemoths China, the US and the USSR but instead fell to the same disappointing demise as Israel, who also failed in their aim of landing on the moon earlier this year.


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NASA has revealed that it has failed to spot the location of India's doomed moon lander Vikram despite desperate attempts to locate the craft at its intended landing site

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Pictured, a NASA image of the targeted landing site of India's Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, which the space agency has said they have not been able to spot

WHAT IS CHANDRAYAAN-2?
Chandrayaan-2 is the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) second lunar probe. It is comprised of three modules, an Orbiter, a Lander called Vikram, and a Rover called Pragyan.

The Orbiter has a terrain mapping camera to help prepare 3D maps of the moon's surface, an X-ray spectrometer looking for major elements including titanium and sodium, and another high resolution camera to help the other modules land safely.

Vikram has an instrument to detect seismic activity on the moon, and a thermal probe that will examine the thermal conductivity of the lunar surface.

Pragyan has an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer that examines the elemental composition of the surface and a laser induced breakdown spectroscope which looks at the abundance of various elements nearby.

The entire mission has cost around 10 billion rupees (£120million).

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Chandrayan-2 (pictured) successfully released its rover, Vikram, from the orbiter and sent it towards the moon earlier this month

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Student walk past a screen during a live streaming of Chandrayaan-2 landing at an educational institute in Mumbai, India, September 7, 2019 before it crashes

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NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (pictured) scanned the intended landing site Looked at more than 92 miles of the area where Vikram was supposed to be

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An official statement from ISRO earlier in the week of the attempted landing said all the systems controlling the Vikram lander and its rover, Pragyan, were 'healthy'

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From there, the six-wheeled rover Pragyan would spend two weeks exploring an uncharted region and carrying out topographical studies, mineralogical analyses and other experiments in a bid to help the world gain a better understanding of the moon's origins.

Chandrayaan-2, was intended to study permanently shadowed moon craters that contain water deposits, which was confirmed by the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008.

The latest mission lifted off on July 22 from the Satish Dhawan space centre in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

After its launch, Chandrayaan-2 spent several weeks making its way towards the moon, ultimately entering lunar orbit on August 20.

The Vikram lander separated from the mission's orbiter on September 2 and began a series of braking manoeuvres to lower its orbit and ready itself for landing.

There's now much uncertainty as to what actually happened as Vikram got closer to the surface.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was filmed consoling visibly distraught ISRO staff after they lost contact with the lander on Friday night.

In a subsequent formal address to the scientists and the nation, he hinted that the lander might have travelled at a higher-than-expected speed and crash landed on the moon.

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India's Moon mission: Chandrayaan-2 was intended to be a ground-breaking mission to the south pole of the moon and hoped to land on a high plain between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, which are around 70° south

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Israel attempted to land on the moon earlier this year but the mission ended in disaster when the Beresheet spacecraft fell into an uncontrolled descent

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to analyse the data to find out what went wrong.

Prime Minister Modi, who was present at the ISRO centre, told scientists : 'There are ups and downs in life ... What you have accomplished is no small achievement.'

He added: 'If historians some day write about today's incident, they will certainly say that inspired by our romantic description of the moon throughout life, Chandrayaan, in the last leg of the journey, rushed to embrace the moon.'

Modi said that though India 'came very close' it needs to 'cover more ground' in the times to come. 'I can proudly say that the effort was worth it and so was the journey.'

'We are full of confidence that when it comes to our space program, the best is yet to come,' Modi said.

Sivan had earlier described the final moments of the landing mission as '15 minutes of terror,' due to the complexities involved with lunar gravity, terrain and dust.

ISRO also sent an orbiter to space with the mission, which will continue to make observations around the moon.

They hoped to release a rover after the landing, which would then spend a fortnight – a single day in moon time – exploring.

The lander was named Vikram after the father of India's space program, Vikram Sarabhai.

taken by aliens? or like fake hanuman army surgical strike?

simply put, they don't have capability for hard stuff like soft landing, manned space flight, space station, heavy rockets but create so much drama for propaganda

 

[Trango Towers]

it probably missed the moon and landed on some mythical space ship instead. or hindu God's took it into their relm

It landed when modi was doing a moonie

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Where are the "scientists" of PDF who said it should be appreciated? @Reichsmarschall

What are we appreciating exactly?

You're a disappointment, don't ever tag me again