Historic missions India suddenly lost contact with the lunar lander

Historic missions India suddenly lost contact with the lunar lander. The current cause is unknown.

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 On September 6, India boldly tried to make history the first country to land on the moon's Antarctic and lost contact with the Vikram lunar lander. This anomaly undermined India's dream of becoming the fourth country to successfully land on the moon.

 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) designed Chandrayaan-2, and Prime Minister Modi also encouraged the Vikram to arrive at the Space Center half an hour before the moon was expected to land.

 At 4:48 pm, ISRO Director K. Sivan stated, "The decline of the Vikram lander was on schedule and normal performance was observed at a height of 2.1 km (1.3 miles), after which the earth station lost contact with the lander.  We are analyzing the data."

 Sivan did not specify when ISRO could provide new information about what happened to the Vikram Lander.  According to the decline data, the lowest height of the last return to the Earth is 0.2 miles (0.33 km) above the surface of the moon.  The data shows that when the communication stops, Vikram deviates from the target landing point by about 0.6 miles (1 km).

 Moonship 2 consists of three parts, an orbiter, a lander called Vikram and a lunar car called Pragyan.  They were launched on the moon with the Mark III (GSLV Mk III) rocket on July 22, and it took nearly 7 weeks to reach the destination. The Moonship 2 arrived on the lunar orbit on August 20, and the lander was on September 2.  The day is separated from the lunar orbit and begins to fall to the surface of the moon.

 The lander and lunar rover were originally expected to spend 14 Earth days, using various scientific instruments to investigate the lunar surface. Both machines will be closed at the moon's Antarctic evening because they are designed to withstand the cold temperatures of the moon night.  Although the Pragyan lunar rover and the Vikram lander have been killed, the Moonship 2 will continue to study the moon from a distance for about a year.

 The possible failure today will be ISRO's second crash on the moon. The first moon mission, the Moonship 1, was launched in 2008. There is only one detector and the collision bumper. It successfully studied the moon for about 10 months.  .  Moonship 2 has some similarities with Moonship 1, but Moonship 2 has ISRO's new technology for testing future planetary missions, such as the future Mars mission.  India has announced a tentative plan to launch the third lunar mission of the Moonship 3 in 2024. Like the Moonship 2, the mission will include a lunar rover.

 India is striving to become the fourth country to land on the moon's surface after the United States, Russia and China.  After the first moon landing mission of Israel's Beresheet crashed, the Vikram lander may have the same fate.  However, unlike Genesis, Moonboat 2 will still collect more data around the moon for two weeks.