Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraces and consoles tearful rocket scientist as India's ISRO Chandrayaan-2 moon lander is feared to have CRASHED into the surface after mission control lost contact
Daily Mail
September 7, 2019
After what at first seemed a promising start to its descent, data for the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lander, Vikram, began to show 'wiggles' during its braking phase that signalled it may not have been headed for a smooth landing. And moments later, communication with the craft was lost, leaving its fate up in the air.
There's now much uncertainty as to what actually happened as Vikram got closer to the surface. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to analyze the data to find out what went wrong.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present at the ISRO centre, told scientists : 'There are ups and downs in life ... What you have accomplished is no small achievement.'
Though ISRO had not released any official update, Modi in a subsequent formal address to the scientists and the nation hinted that the lander might have travelled at a higher-than-expected speed and crash landed on the moon.
1 comment:
They can't even make a decent automobile. Why should they think they can get a spacecraft to actually hit the moon and be effective once it gets there. (Unless they hired Taiwan to build it for them.)
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