India lost contact with the Chandrayaan-3 lunar station (3 photos)

Experts are still trying to “wake up” the landing module and the lunar rover.





Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, successful delivered to the lunar surface as part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, not respond to attempts by specialists to restore contact with them, reports Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

"Attempts are being made to establish contact with the landing module "Vikram" and the lunar rover "Pragyan" to find out their condition after waking up [from sleep mode]. Currently the signal from they were not received. Attempts to establish contact will continue," they said. ISRO.



Lunar rover "Pragyan". As noted by ISRO, the lunar rover completed all its tasks.

It is reported that in early September the lander and Lunokhod were put into sleep mode. They worked their allotted time experiments on a lunar day (14 Earth days) and ISRO hoped that The devices will be able to start working with the arrival of a new lunar daylight. However, this did not happen. Initially lander and rover "Pragyan" were not designed to resume work after a moonlit night. According to Indian media reports, it is unlikely that the devices will be turned on again - the equipment most likely did not survive the moonlit night, for which characterized by extremely low temperatures.



Let us recall that the landing of the Indian lander Vikram premiered on August 23rd. Thus, India became fourth "lunar power" and the first country that managed to land a module in area of the previously unexplored south pole of the Moon.