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Isro tweets thank you for support to Chandrayaan 2 after losing contact with lander
By Press Trust of India | Bengaluru
UPDATED ON SEP 17, 2019 11:56 PM IST
Prime Minister Modi, who had flown down to Bengaluru to watch the planned touchdown of Vikram, had told ISRO scientists not to get dejected and disheartened and said the country was proud of them.
Chandrayaan 2 lander located on moon surface, trying to establish contact: Isro chief
By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 27, 2020 07:12 PM IST
Chandrayaan 2: Scientists lost contact with the Vikram lander at 1.53am in the early hours of Saturday,less than two minutes before it was supposed to make a soft landing on the moon’s surface.
Vikram lander falls silent 2.1 km from Moon
By Anonna Dutt | New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2019 11:54 PM IST
The orbiter will, however, continue to revolve around the moon and collect significant scientific information on the lunar terrain, elements present on the moon, and the exosphere, the thin layer of atmosphere around the moon.
Chandrayaan 2: Final orbit lowering move today, lander to separate out on Monday
By Anonna Dutt | New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 24, 2020 04:11 AM IST
This will be the final orbit in which the orbiter module of the spacecraft will stay for a year and conduct experiments to study the lunar terrain, the thin atmosphere around the moon, lunar ionosphere, and minerals on the moon.
India’s second lunar mission to land on moon with lander, rover: ISRO
By Indo Asian News Service | Bengaluru
UPDATED ON AUG 12, 2018 07:43 PM IST
The 3,890-kg Chandrayaan-2, which will be launched onboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-3, will orbit around the moon and study its lunar conditions to collect data on its topography, mineralogy and exosphere.