ISRO confirms moon lander Vikram located on lunar surface

ISRO Chief K. Sivan has confirmed that the space agency has located the moon lander Vikram on the lunar surface.

Sivan said that Indian Space Research Organisation has received a photograph of the lander of the Chandrayaan 2 mission on the lunar surface. The orbiter of Chandrayaan 2 had taken a thermal image of the lander.

Communication links with the lander, however, are yet to be established. Efforts are on to re-establish contact with the lander.

The lander was just 2.1 km from the lunar surface at last record before it stopped transmitting its signal during the final phase of its descent.

ISRO was to make history with the world’s first moon landing near the lunar South Pole. Only 20 out of 32 missions to soft-land a spacecraft on to the moon had succeeded.