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Frozen screens tell story: Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander fell silent 335 m from Moon | India News, The Indian Express

Frozen screens tell story: Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander fell silent 335 m from Moon | India News, The Indian Express

Written by Johnson T A |Bengaluru |Updated: September 11, 2019 8:19:43 am



Frozen screens tell story: Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander fell silent 335 m from Moon

It is likely that touchdown occurred at a much higher velocity than the “stringent touchdown requirement of 5 m/s in vertical and horizontal velocity” or less, as specified by ISRO in the planning phase.

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ISRO Mission Control display shows point when contact was lost


Data frozen on giant screens at the Mission Operations Complex at ISRO’s Telemetry Tracking and Command Centre early on Saturday are the basis on which the space agency has begun its analysis of the Vikram lander’s failure to soft-land on the Moon

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