On 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into ‘sleep mode’ to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week night
Hopes are fading for the “re-awakening” of India’s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to make communication with the spacecraft since it went into shutdown mode to survive the freezing lunar night conditions.
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission made a historic landing on the south pole of the moon in August, after a 40 day interstellar journey, and the rover had spent over a week collecting data from the lunar surface.
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