Lander of Chandrayaan-2 collides on the moon, but still intact: ISRO

(PTI) Bengaluru, Ta. September 9, 2019, Monday

ISRO gave good news on Monday regarding Chandrayaan-2. Chandrayaan-2's record lander has hit the surface of the moon, but it is still single-handed and intact while ISRO's efforts to reconnect with it are underway, ISRO officials said Monday. Vikram Lander lost contact with Pragyan Rover during his final soft landing on the surface of the moon late on September 6th.

ISRO officials associated with the Chandrayaan-2 mission claimed that the record lander was on the surface of the moon and was in a single piece. It's not broken, it's safe. However, it is turned upside down.

When landing on the surface of the moon, only 2.1 km Although the lander has hit the surface of the moon after losing contact from a distance, it is very close to the landing site at a fixed place on the moon, it is clear from the photographs sent by Chandrayaan-2's orbiter onboard camera, he added.

We are making every effort to check if the contact with the lander can be restored. ISRO's team is working in ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ITTCN).

Chandrayaan-2 includes an orbiter, lander record and rover science. Lander and Rover's mission life is like Lunar Day, which means 14 days on Earth.

That the head of Esro. Siwan said on Saturday that space saturation would try to restore contact with the lander for 14 days, and on Sunday after the orbiter's camera discovered the lander's location on the surface of the moon, he asserted that ISRO would continue its attempt to reconnect with Vikram.

ISRO officials said the chances of reconnecting with the lander are very low, as it is unlikely to have a system in place. Except where everything is intact in the lander it can be contacted. If all the systems in the lander are in a working state, contact can be restored and such possibilities are very low.

Recalling ISRO's experience of reconnecting with a spacecraft that had not been exposed to a geostationary orbit, another ISRO official said the lander's case was different. In the case of records there is no flexibility of operation. However, positioning the lander antenna is very important. If it is towards the ground station orbiter, it may be reconnected, he said.

This kind of operation is very difficult and we can hope for this. Vikram Lander has three payloads, including Radio Anatomy of Moon-bound Hypersensitive Lonosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBH), Moon's Surface Thermo-Physical Experiment (ChSTE) and Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (IL).

Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter saved Isro's glory

Bangalore, Ta. 9

The flawless and precise launch and effective management of Chandrayaan-2 missions have saved Isro's glory on the Orbiter front. The 2,379kg orbiter was designed for a year's mission life, but the orbiter will now work for about seven years. Orbiter has sufficient fuel available due to flawless and precise launch and effective management of Chandrayaan-2 missions.

The orbiter is moving in orbit 100 km above the moon. It is working properly, and the orbiter will continue to travel the moon to its mission life, sending its images to ISRO by mapping the moon's growth and its surface minerals and water at the north-south poles. To serve these purposes, eight sophisticated scientific instruments have been deployed in the orbiter.

ISRO announced its Chandrayaan-2 mission to be 90 to 95 percent successful after the orbiter's operation on Chandran-2's record lander failed landing on the lunar surface. The information sent by the orbiter devices will prove very useful to the global scientific community, ISRO scientists said. Thus, Orbiter's actions have saved Isro's glory.

That the head of Esro. Siwan does not have a social media account

Bangalore, Ta. 9

That the head of Esro. Siwan has no social media account and information shared by such account is not reliable, ISRO said on Monday. ISRO had noticed that social media accounts in the name of Kailaswadivu Siwan (with a photograph of K. Siwan) were active and that information was being circulated about India's adventurous Chandrayan-2 mission. Therefore, the information transmitted by such accounts is not reliable, ISRO said.