Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander debris located: NASA credits Chennai techie with find | Technology News, The Indian Express

Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander debris located: NASA credits Chennai techie with find | Technology News, The Indian Express

By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |Updated: December 3, 2019 4:33:50 pm

Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander debris located: NASA credits Chennai techie with find

Vikram lander debris found: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera has sighted the remains of Vikram lander on the lunar surface

NASA also praised ISRO’s effort to get the lander ‘that close’ to the lunar surface.

Three months after the Vikram lander of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan 2 mission made a hard landing on moon’s surface, the United States’ space agency Tuesday validated a Chennai engineer’s efforts in spotting the lander’s debris.