Hard landing may have disabled Vikram lander’s communication system: Former ISRO scientists | Technology News, The Indian Express

Hard landing may have disabled Vikram lander’s communication system: Former ISRO scientists | Technology News, The Indian Express

Written by Johnson TA |Bengaluru |Updated: September 15, 2019 11:34:50 am

Hard landing may have disabled Vikram lander’s communication system: Former ISRO scientists

Chandrayaan-2: ISRO has been attempting to communicate with the Vikram lander since contact was lost 335 metres from the surface of the moon — barely seconds before touchdown — while the lander was noted to be travelling at a vertical velocity of 59 m/sec

On Thursday, former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said that there were no signals from the Vikram lander for ISRO to track. He also indicated that the communication break with the lander occurred just ahead of touchdown. (PTI Photo)

A hard landing on the surface of the moon may have disabled the communication system on ISRO’s Vikram lander, former scientists from the space organisation have started to believe, with no contact being established with the lander more than a week after the attempted soft landing on the lunar surface.