Chandrayaan-2: ISRO Loses Communication With Vikram Lander| Mathrubhumi News

Bengaluru: The ISRO lost communication with Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 minutes before its touchdown at the lunar surface through soft landing. Soon after the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 mission started the much awaited descent towards the lunar surface at 1.00 am early this day, it suddenly went off trajectory. Later, the ISRO's Mission Control Centre at Peenya announced that "the Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently, communication from the Lander to the ground stations was lost. Data is being analyzed". Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scientists, students and many other personalities were at the ISRO centre in Bengaluru to watch the mission's most crucial part.