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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
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 09 2019, @01:52PM (1 child)
I'm not real sure. People who are rolled away from a hard landing are generally headed to the hospital or the morgue. We'll need an AI to decide how the lander counts. ;^)
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday September 09 2019, @07:13PM
I guess it brings to meaning to the term "heads will roll". Perhaps we can say "CPUs will roll".
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