'Vikram' is almost out of touch with darkness on the moon
Saturday morning will start the night on the moon and with the darkness set in, all the possibilities of contact with 'Chandrayaan-2' lander 'Vikram' are now almost gone. The life of the lander is equal to one lunar day i.e. 14 days of the Earth. Failure to make a 'soft landing' in the early hours of September 7 will end the lifetime of the lander that fell on the moon on September 21, because after completing one day of the moon from September 7 to September 21, this natural satellite of Earth in the early hours of Saturday Will take it in his lap The Indian Space Research Organization has been making all efforts to contact the lander since September 7 (Saturday), but so far it has not been able to find any success and the working period of 'Vikram' as the night starts on the moon tomorrow. It will be done. It was said that due to the hard landing of 'Vikram' it lost contact with the ground station.
On September 8, ISRO said that the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter had taken a thermal picture of the lander, but despite millions of attempts, it could not be contacted yet. Within the 'Vikram', the rover 'Pragyan' is closed, which was to carry out scientific experimentation on the surface of the moon, but this did not happen due to the fall of the lander and loss of contact. Weighing 3,840 kg 'Chandrayaan-2' costing a total of Rs 978 crore, India's most powerful launch vehicle GSLV Mark III-M1 was launched from the earth on 22 July. The cost of the satellite was Rs 603 crore and the cost of the launch vehicle was Rs 375 crore.
Although India could not succeed in the 'soft landing' of the lander on the moon, but the orbiter is gracefully circling the moon. Its lifetime was set to one year, but later ISRO scientists said that it has so much extra fuel that it can work for about seven years. If there was success in 'soft landing', after Russia, America and China, India would become the fourth country in the world to do so.