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India Locates Lander Lost on Final Approach to Moon

posted by chromas on Monday September 09 2019, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.

The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission's orbiter had located the lander. "It must have been a hard landing," PTI quoted Sivan as saying.

[...] The space agency said it lost touch with the Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon's south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.

A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.

The space agency said Saturday that the lander's descent was normal until 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the lunar surface.

Previously: Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @12:09PM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday September 09 2019, @12:09PM (#891633)

    you DID disable Windows updates on the probe, did you?

    Yes, I DID, but Microsoft changed the disable override override exception expert mode professional edition embedded version licensed user policy status registry change method, AGAIN during that last mandatory update to fix their other screwups, and they didn't tell us anywhere in their 300 pages of update change notifications.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 09 2019, @03:20PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday September 09 2019, @03:20PM (#891706) Journal

    Seems, Legit. I'd almost buy it, except I doubt they're using Windows. Then again, maybe I'm not cynical enough.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 09 2019, @03:48PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday September 09 2019, @03:48PM (#891722)

      I have seen Windows used in places it never should even be considered...

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      • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday September 09 2019, @09:39PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 09 2019, @09:39PM (#891880) Journal

        Windows used in places it never should even be considered...

        Well, duh!
        That's all the places I've seen Windows.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @11:38PM

      by legont (4179) on Monday September 09 2019, @11:38PM (#891938)

      Indians, as well as Russians, use mostly Windows. See, they trust in capitalism, not in some community open "nix" or "ism".

      No, I am not joking.

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