{"id":8035,"date":"2019-09-16T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2019-09-22T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T18:46:21","slug":"indias-second-moon-mission-ends-in-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2019\/09\/16\/indias-second-moon-mission-ends-in-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Second Moon Mission Ends in Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ariana Keshishian
\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Indian\u2019s lunar lander module, Chandrayaan-2, was intended to land on the surface of the Moon a little after midnight on September 7th, a month after it was shot into space. However, once the craft was 2 kilometers, or 1.2 miles, from the lunar surface it began to malfunction and it lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organization (IRSO), the country\u2019s space agency, according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A day after it lost contact, the agency found the module on the Moon\u2019s surface tilted on its side and unbroken; however, no contact could be made. The ISRO said that the mission was \u201chighly complex\u201d and \u201crepresented a significant technological leap\u201d compared against other missions.<\/p>\n

IRSO originally planned for the probe to be the first to explore the Moon\u2019s south polar region. Had the landing been successful, the next step would have been for a rover, Pragyan, to be deployed in order to collect mineral and chemical samples from the surface to look for evidence of water molecules on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2\u2019s mission was conducted to study moon craters which were believed to have contained water deposits explored in an earlier survey by the Chandrayaan-1 probe back in 2008.<\/p>\n

According to Professor Roddam Narasimha, a former member of ISRO, the problem in Chandrayaan-2\u2019s descent could have been with the lander\u2019s central engine. \u201cOne plausible explanation was that the lander started falling more rapidly…it\u2019s supposed to come down at a velocity of two meters per second when it hits the Moon\u2019s surface. But the gravity on the moon would have made it fall somewhat more rapidly.\u201d Professor Narasimha believes that this is also the reason why India lost communication with the module.<\/p>\n

Another possible explanation for the crash is that, due to the speed at which the lander was moving, it could have pulled up a considerable amount of dust which may have shaken the spacecraft due to gravity. However, scientists feel that the malfunctioning of one of the engines is a greater possibility, reports CNN<\/a>. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was the most complex ever conducted or even attempted by ISRO.<\/p>\n

A successful landing would have made India the fourth country to land a vessel on the moon and the third to operate a robotic rover on the moon, according to the ISRO\u2019s website<\/a>. To date, only three nations have ever landed a spacecraft on the moon – the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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