India's historic, risky landing on Moon's polar surface may have failed

Posted on AllSides September 6th, 2019
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(CNN)India's historic attempt to soft land a rover on the moon may have ended in failure moments before landing on Saturday morning, India time. Scientists scrambled to analyze the final communication from Chandrayaan-2.

"Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed till the altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently the communication from the lander to ground station was lost. The data is being analysed," said K. Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, the country's equivalent of NASA.

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