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End of Mission? What happens to Vikram lander and Pragyan rover now?
Fp Explainers •Despite several attempts, Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover and Vikram lander did not wake up when the sun rose on the lunar surface on 20 September. Now it’s night on the moon again. Is this the end of India’s moon experiment?
Chandrayaan-3 Update: ISRO postpones Vikram Lander, Pragyan Rover resurrection
Mehul Das •ISRO has announced that they will not be attempting to revive the Vikram Lander and the Pragyan Rover of the Chandrayaan 3 mission today, and will instead, try to attempt a resurrection on September 23
‘Like taking something out of the freezer’: ISRO Chief on reviving Chandrayaan-3's Vikram, Pragyan
Mehul Das •ISRO hopes to revive the Vikram lander and Pragyan Rover after having put them to sleep, for the long and cold lunar night. G Madhavan Nair, former Chairman of ISRO has revealed that waking it up would be very harsh on the rover and lander
Chandrayaan-3 Update: ISRO trying to resurrect Vikram Rover, Pragyan Rover as lunar night ends
Mehul Das •After 14 long days of a lunar night, sunlight has finally struck Shiv Shakti point, the area where Chandrayaan 3's Vikram Rover landed. Now, ISRO is trying to revive the lander module, and the Pragyan Rover, which were put into hibernation for the lunar night
Chandrayaan 2 orbiter catches Vikram Lander enjoying a slumber on the Moon, ISRO shares pics
Mehul Das •The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter has one of the most sophisticated instruments of any space mission, the Dual-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar or DFSAR. It is basically a camera that can see in absolute darkness. It recently took a picture of Chandrayaan 3's Vikram Lander
Aditya L-1 Mission: A big shot post Chandrayaan-3
Martand Jha •The entire ISRO is in high spirits currently and this mission’s success would add another feather in India’s cap
Lunar Life: Chandrayaan-3’s initial findings show Moon more habitable than previously thought
Mehul Das •The data collected by Chandrayaan 3's Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover has found that the Moon is more hospitable for a human colony than we thought earlier. The topsoil works as a great insulator, and we can extract breathable oxygen from certain minerals on the Moon
A Hop, Skip, and Jump: Vikram Lander exceeds Chandrayaan-3's mission objectives with a daring experiment
Mehul Das •ISRO had the Vikram Lander of Chandrayaan-3 perform a daring experiment, in which the lander hopped off the surface of the moon, and performed another soft landing on the lunar surface. With this, the lander exceeded all of Chandrayaan-3's mission objectives
How the secret behind ISRO's success lies in India's civilisational continuity
Aditya Chaturvedi •What began in a coastal fishing village in Kerala, with sounding rockets carried atop a bicycle, has now reached another landmark that few would have imagined, let alone trusted
WATCH: Vikram Lander catches the Pragyan Rover executing a crucial move to continue on its mission
Mehul Das •The Vikram Lander shot a video of the Pragyan Rover executing a vital manoeuvre so that it could move out of harm's way and continue on its mission. Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan Rover has already made a number of important discoveries on the Moon