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India locates Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander lost on final approach to Moon By AP/AFP
THE lander module from India’s Moon mission has been located on the lunar surface, a day after contact was lost, the head of the country’s space agency says. The Press Trust of India news agency cited K. Sivan, the chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO), as saying cameras from the Moon mission’s orbiter had located the lander. Mr Sivan said efforts were underway to try to establish contact with it, adding he expected the lander must have experienced “a hard landing”. The space agency lost touch with its Vikram lunar lander RQ 6DWXUGD\ DV LW PDGH LWV ¿ QDO approach to the moon’s South Pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water. A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there. The space agency said on
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The Chandrayaan-2 mission was launched on July 22 in India. (Supplied: ISRO)
Saturday the lander’s descent was normal until 2 kilometres from the lunar surface. The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 (Sanskrit for
“moon vehicle”) was due to land in the lunar South Pole region, a region the ISRO said was “completely unexplored”. The lunar rover that was to be
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deployed from the spaceship was hoped to help scientists better understand the origin and evolution of the Moon Continued on Page 4