A software engineer in Chennai who pored over satellite images in his spare time helped NASA locate the debris of India's ill-fated mission to the moon.
Mystery of Chandrayaan 2: Vikram lander, Pragyan rover spotted? Reuters | Thursday January 2, 2020 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Sivan has claimed that the Vikram Lander of Chandrayaan-2 had been spotted by the space agency's own orbiter much ahead of NASA. He has also tweeted out images of his possible find and mailed them to ISRO and NASA, who would be the best authorities to judge and confirm the possible find. Agence France-Presse | Tuesday December 3, 2019
"This image was more illuminated due to the then prevailing lighting conditions in that region and enabled me to spot much more. My latest find ( possibly vikram lander and pragyan rover) is around 500-700 meters towards the right of the debris that I located last year" he says. India's second moon-probe Chandrayaan 2 was launched on July 22nd last year and had attempted a moon-landing on September 7th. Chandrayaan-2: The debris of the crashed Vikram lander on the lunar surface has been located though there is a sort of discrepancies in who located it first: NASA or the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Chandrayaan-2's lander Vikram, which crashed while attempting to land on the moon in September, has been found by NASA, and the US space agency has credited a Chennai-based engineer who spent hours comparing before and after images of the landing site.
From India's Chandrayaan-2 mission to the first all-women spacewalk and commercial crew milestones by US-based companies, 2019 offered several exciting moments for space enthusiasts. Chandrayaan-2: The debris of the crashed Vikram lander on the lunar surface has been located though there is a sort of discrepancies in who located it first: NASA or the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Find Vikram Lander Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Vikram Lander and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV.COM. ISRO Needs to Find Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram’s Fate on Moon, Says US Space Expert. Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 17, 2019 Photograph:( My latest find ( possibly vikram lander and pragyan rover) is around 500-700 meters towards the right of the debris that I located last year" he says. Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday December 28, 2019 The sun is setting on Vikram lander but not on Chandrayaan-2. Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander hard-landed as reduction in velocity during its descent did not match with the designed parameters, the government said on Wednesday throwing more light on ISRO's dashed hopes of making a soft landing on the lunar surface in its maiden attempt. Shanmuga Subramanian told WION that his earlier find was of the debris (perhaps a part of the payload that the Vikram lander was carrying on-board) from the crash landing, as also acknowledged by NASA.Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based techie and space enthusiast who was credited by NASA, late last year for spotting the debris of India's Chandrayaan 2 moon probe, Vikram lander, which crash landed near the south pole of the moon, has come up with his latest find.This time he claims to have possibly spotted the skeleton of the Vikram lander and also the pragyaan rover that might have rolled out onto the lunar surface.
Trinamool Congress's Saugata Roy on Wednesday demanded in Lok Sabha that the government pull up persons responsible for "failure" of Chandrayan-2 mission.