Why Vikram lander, Pragyan rover remain dormant despite best efforts to reactivate them?
They were originally engineered for a 14-day lunar mission
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They were originally engineered for a 14-day lunar mission
India was the first to land near the lunar south pole, but it was always unlikely that its spacecraft could withstand the moon's elements.
The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) is building its knowledge of missions that could bring back samples to Earth, after the success of Chandrayaan-3.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath claimed that the lunar soil is not acting dusty, but is lumpy. This means something is binding the soil
The findings from Chandrayaan-3, particularly the successful hop experiment, will be the basis of future lunar missions, an Isro official said