Chandrayaan-2 Mission - One More Mile To Go - Asian Indian lander appears to meet misfortune at the last stage

Source:
Doordarshan National

BREAKING - [Sat Sept 7 02:24 am – SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA] - Communications with Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander ceased at about the time the lander appeared to have descended to nearly 2.1 km (6800 ft) from the lunar surface. Rather than the anticipated jubilation, there was stunned silence and stiff upper-lip manning-up among mission controllers and others gathered at India’s Satish Dhawan space command center today. The mission was planned as the first to land on the Moon’s South Pole. One Indian commentator suggested the final rate of descent may have been at too great a velocity.

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