Explained: ISRO’s Vikram Lander is lost, but this hardly matters. Here’s why | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: ISRO’s Vikram Lander is lost, but this hardly matters. Here’s why | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Amitabh Sinha |Edited by Explained Desk |Bengaluru |Updated: September 7, 2019 5:15:17 pm

Explained: ISRO’s Vikram Lander is lost, but this hardly matters. Here’s why

The maximum amount of science in ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission is supposed to be done by the instruments onboard the Orbiter which is in perfect health and communicating with the ground station.

Chandrayaan-2: A dish antenna tracks the moon at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. (PTI Photo: Shailendra Bhojak)

Though the expected soft-landing of the Vikram Lander was not accomplished, the Chandrayaan-2 mission is far from over. In fact, in science terms, very little has been lost. But in terms of optics, it is definitely a huge setback for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).