India’s maiden attempt to soft land on the moon during the Chandrayaan-2 mission failed in September last year, as its spacecraft Vikram ‘crash landed’ near the moon’s south pole due to a velocity glitch, a top space official said on Wednesday.
“The velocity reduction was more than the required pace during the second (rough-breaking) phase of the lander’s descent. Hence, it was not able to perform the third phase, as it was beyond the navigational system,” state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan told reporters here.
Contrary to the space agency’s claim that Vikram had a hard landing on the lunar surface on that fateful day (September 7, 2019), Sivan admitted to IANS that the lander crashed on impact.
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