The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said that it has traced the exact location of lander 'Vikram', a day after it lost communication from the ground station in the last moments during soft landing on the moon surface.
'We've found the location of Vikram Lander on lunar surface and orbiter has clicked a thermal image of Lander. But there is no communication now. We are trying to have contact. It will be communicated soon', said ISRO chairman K Sivan.
Notably, India's ambitious lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 22. On August 20, the ISRO successfully fired the liquid engine of Chandrayaan-2 and inserted the spacecraft in the lunar orbit from the earth orbit.
On September 2, the Vikram lander successfully separated from the Orbiter to reach the lunar surface. However, on September 7, the misson suffered a setback when the Vikram lander lost its communication with the ground stations, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface. The landing, if successful, would have made India only the 4th country in the world to land a rover on the lunar surface.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while replying to celebrities from sports and film fraternity on Twiter, had said, '1.3 billion Indians are with ISRO. They make us proud from their resilience and spirit of exploration.
Responding to ace tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi, PM Modi wrote, 'For champions like ISRO and our sports persons, there is no such thing as failure. There is Learining only.
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