ISRO hope: No news not necessarily bad news | Technology News, The Indian Express

ISRO hope: No news not necessarily bad news | Technology News, The Indian Express

Written by Amitabh Sinha |Bengaluru |Updated: September 9, 2019 1:11:08 am

ISRO hope: No news not necessarily bad news

ISRO issued a statement Saturday to emphasise that the Chandrayaan-2 mission was still on, and had a lot of science left in it, despite the setback. The statement threw no light on what could have happened to the lander, except for saying that communication with it had been lost

FILE- In this Aug. 20, 2019 file photo, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan displays a model of Chandrayaan 2 orbiter and rover during a press conference at their headquarters in Bangalore, India.

Nearly 24 hours after mission control lost contact with the Vikram lander, there was no clear statement from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the fate of the module that likely fell on the Moon’s surface in an uncontrolled fashion after failing to slow down sufficiently in its descent.