Chandrayaan-2 Live: Vikram Lander located on lunar surface, must have been a hard-landing, confirms Sivan
Chandrayaan-2: 'Vikram intact, in tilted position'
Not losing hope, the Indian Space Research Organisation continued to make all-out efforts to establish a link with Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' lander, now lying on the lunar surface after a hard-landing.Vikram, with rover 'Pragyan' housed inside it, hit the lunar surface after communication with the ground-stations was lost during its final descent, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface, in the early hours of September 7.
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Nation's support, PM's address boosted our morale: ISRO Chief Sivan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address and the outpouring of support and kind words for ISRO after the unsuccessful bid byChandrayaan-2's Vikram module to touch-down on the lunar surface have boosted the morale of its scientists, space agency's Chairman K Sivan said on Sunday.
"We are extremely happy (with PM's address as well as nation rallying behind ISRO). It has boosted the morale of our people," Sivan told PTI.
Former ISRO Chairman K Kasturirangan praised the Prime Minister for inspiring, encouraging and reassuring Sivan and ISRO team and fully backing them. "We are so touched. The country has given a good, positive response. PM was incredible yesterday." he told PTI.
"The way he (PM) conveyed it... so passionate... so emotional and sometimes rich with meanings and positive responses. I think we could not have expected anything better. Fantastic," he said.
The Prime Minister on Saturday gave a long and tight hug to an emotional Sivan, who was in tears, unable to come to terms over Lander Vikram's unsuccessful bid to soft-land on the moon.
The video of Modi hugging Sivan has gone viral on social media with netizens dubbing it the hug of over a billion Indians and heaping praises on both.
Chandrayaan-2 Lander setback will not affect future space missions of the country: Karnataka Guv Vajubhai Vala
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala said the lander setback in theChandrayaan-2project will not have any effect on future space missions of the country.
Speaking late Saturday night in Vadodara, he said the country was proud of its scientists and stood solidly behind the Indian Space Research Organisation.
In the early hours of Saturday, the Vikram lander module ofChandrayaan-2had lost communication with ground stations, just2.1 km from the lunar surface during its final descent.
On Sunday, ISRO chairman K Sivan said the lander had been located on the lunar surface, adding that "it must have been a hard-landing".