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India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander fails to answer wake-up call, may be dead for good

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The Indian lunar lander and rover entered hibernation in early September. Attempts to awaken the pair have failed for several days.

Engineers at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have begun attempts to wake the Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover from hibernation after the two-week frosty lunar night.

On Friday (Sept. 22), ISRO said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that it has made attempts "to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition."

After further attempts to awaken the rover and lander on Monday (Sept. 25), the engineers still haven't heard back from the iconic duo, the first two human-made objects to land in the moon's south polar region.

"Efforts to establish contact will continue," ISRO said in the post. However, ISRO mission officials told the BBC on Monday that chances of awakening the duo are "dimming with each passing hour."

Chandrayaan-3 landed near the lunar south pole on Aug. 23, making India only the fourth nation in history to stick a lunar landing, after the U.S., Russia and China.

In the two weeks that followed, Pragyan explored the landing site, beaming images back to Earth, while Vikram performed a set of scientific experiments including measuring the temperature of the top layer of the lunar regolith. The probe also analyzed the chemical composition of the lunar dust and found traces of sulfur, which might hold clues to past volcanic activity.


The Pragyan rover was put to sleep on Sept. 2, when all of its instruments were turned off. The Vikram lander followed suit two days later. The mission completed its primary mission goals, but ISRO hopes that the two spacecraft may have been able to survive the frosty lunar night.

Chandrayaan-3 was India's second attempt to land on the moon. The mission's predecessor, Chandrayaan-2, crashed in 2019 due to a software glitch. The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, however, is still studying the moon from lunar orbit.

 
Where are all those Muhajir neo-liberals cheering the landing? Was it even worth 70 million?
 
Where are all those Muhajir neo-liberals cheering the landing? Was it even worth 70 million?
Well now of course it was




Space sector market cap is currently $8 billion, is projected to hit almost 13 billion in couple of years.


70 million expenduture is too less, they should spend a billion if necessary and do a manned landing.
 
Where are all those Muhajir neo-liberals cheering the landing? Was it even worth 70 million?
The primary objectives of the mission have been accomplished regardless of whether the lander and rover wake up or not.
But I'm sure you'll have a great sleep after reading this news.
 
The primary objectives of the mission have been accomplished regardless of whether the lander and rover wake up or not.
But I'm sure you'll have a great sleep after reading this news.

I was asleep when it even launched :lazy2:
 
Rover went maybe less than 100 feet. Jai Hind.
Thats 100 feet more than whatever launched by your bankrupt hellhole can go in the next 100 years :lol:. Keep sucking the lawda of imf they might throw some chillar at you if they are in a good mood
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Thats 100 feet more than whatever launched by your bankrupt hellhole can go in the next 100 years :lol:. Keep sucking the lawda of imf they might throw some chillar at you if they are in a good mood
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We all know the level of education over there that they literally think CY-3 failed because it isn't responding after completing its mission and going through a lunar night it was not even designed for :lol:.

ISRO is just trying to see whether the lander responds or not and if it does then some more research could be done, but entire pakistani media has started calling it a failed mission out of sheer desperation :rofl: .
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One small shit for Indian men, one giant shit leap for Indian kind.

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I don't want to insult Indians, but I just somehow knew it would breakdown. They didn't include a radioisotope heater. YUTU-1 launched 10 years ago had a heater and was able to survive the temperature drop. YUTU-1 later had a mechanical failure having got stuck in something, but the electronics survived for almost 3 years after that. It continued to transmit signals for almost 3 years, the lander lasted even longer, still functioning till now, almost 9 years. It has the only telescope on the moon.
 
$70 million is barely sufficient to introduce a new brand of cola or coffee. It is literally spare change in modern science.

It was 79 million. Apparently in an economy of trillions, you have over half a billion in mass poverty. The irony.
You got "spare change" for rockets but no "spare change" for toilets. Totally ironic.


You know for every scene like that in Pak there's literally dozens times the of those scenes in Bharat. You literally have the largest poor population on Earth.

Even your closest allies know what you are.
 

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