India was poised to make history in September by becoming one of just a handful of nations to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. Everything was going smoothly… until it didn’t. Just moments before the Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander was supposed to touch down, its handlers back on Earth lost all contact with the spacecraft.
It wasn’t immediately clear what had happened to the lander, and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was hopeful that the spacecraft survived its impact. It tried to spot the lander on the surface but failed to detect it and, even after NASA’s own orbiter scanned the surface, the fate of Chanrayaan-2 remained unknown. Now, two months after the lander was presumed destroyed, ISRO is acknowledging that the spacecraft is gone forever.
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