Chandrayaan 3: Vikram Lander, Pragyan Rover Sleeps Forever, Here’s Why

The former ISRO chairman also made a positive remark that Chandrayaan-3 will help subsequent missions to moon and specially in that region. 

India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission seems to end now as the moon goes to darkness and the attempts made to communicate with Vikram lander & Pragyan rover have failed. Both, Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were designed in a way to last for one lunar day, i.e., 14 days on earth. Chandrayaan-3 soft landed over moon on August 23 this year.

During first week of September, Vikram and Pragyan fell sleep, after which, several attempts were made to communicate with them on September 20, 21 and 22, but they didn’t wake up. A September 22 message on X by ISRO confirms the same: “Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Efforts have been made to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition. As of now, no signals have been received from them. Efforts to establish contact will continue.”

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Now it seems that India’s ambitious moon mission is nearing to an end after former ISRO chairman A S Kiran on Friday, also confirmed “no chance” of them to wake up again.

Speaking to news agency PTI, the formal ISRO chairman said, “There won’t be any more hope of reviving. Now, if it should have happened, it should have happened by now. There is (now) no chance at all”.

Furthermore, talking about the success of Chandrayaan-3, A S Kiran said: “In the larger sense, what you have achieved definitely is you have reached an area (south pole) where nobody else has gone and got in-situ data of that region. And that is actually very useful information,” as quoted by PTI.

The former ISRO chairman also made a positive remark that Chandrayaan-3 will help subsequent missions to moon and specially in that region.