India’s Moon Landing Possibly Failed
India’s first attempt to place a lander and a rover on the surface of the moon might have failed on Friday.
ISRO officials say that descent operations of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander were normal until it reached 2.1 km above the landing spot near the south pole before all telemetry ceased. ISRO said it is evaluating the data.
It is not clear whether the lander crashed along with its Pragyar rover or if there was a communications glitch. The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is functioning normally, ISRO said.
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Looking at that picture, I think the problem is that they may have landed on the wrong planetary body…. or maybe the Moon Nazies had terraform the moon already with some primordial atmosphere. .That would explain the problem with the landing. LOL
Well, it looks as though Chandrayaan-2’s first job is going to be looking for traces of its siblings. It would be neighborly if LRO could provide an assist.
ive been wondering about the idea of dropping sensors on the lunar/martian surfaces. Something that in the sunlight would emit a signal so that you know how far away the sensors are.
Or go back to the simple analog landing system that worked with the Surveyors. It seems the Moon is too hard for these new fangled computer based landing systems.
The stuff that’s made in China seems to work.
People on these forums like to pretend like Chang’e series of spacecraft hasn’t been highly successful
Name some.
How sad.?
Well, that kinda sucked. Maybe the Indians and Israelis can all go out and get drunk together now that they’re sort of in the same boat. So close. Better luck next time to both of your programs. Remember, the U.S. and Russia both crashed their share of probes. Gotta learn from your failures.
Interesting enough Surveyor 4 was also lost only 2.5 minutes before landing. It was believed that the motor exploded when it was ignited.
Hope they’ll bounce back from it and quickly
It would be interesting to compare the flight “testing” done by the Chinese and Indians (we can ignore the Israelis since it was a shoe string operation) with what was done by the US with the Surveyors
vertical landing with rockets is not that easy…(SpaceX had their hands full and still loses first stages)
the Surveyor approach was fairly clever for the time (they had to of course kill of a lot of energy with a direct insertion), large solid stage braking engine (which was then jettisoned) then the final approach done with relatively small vernier engines. only two failures and both of them more QC then a terminal failure
when the LM flew it had some in orbit uncrewed test and then two human flown test before they tried in on `11 and even that was a very near thing
anyone who thinks we “go back to the Moon” with maybe one flight of the “new” lunar module and then try it for real is smoking something