Mission engineers had hoped that the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover could survive the freezing lunar night, but the sun rose on their landing site on 22 September and there have been no signals from the craft
at Cranfield University, UK, says it shouldn’t be considered a failure if Vikram and Pragyan don’t wake up, as the Chandrayaan-3 mission may have been designed to achieve its objectives in a single lunar day.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.
“It would seem logical to assume that if it didn’t respond during its second lunar day, then, when it comes to the third lunar day, the chances of responding are significantly less,” he says.at the University of Leicester, UK, says that it is now unlikely that the craft will reawaken. “You maybe expect some little bit of delay because things don’t warm up as fast as you’d like or, you know, there’s awkward shadows.
But she says that the project should be considered a huge success. “They’ve done everything they set out to do,” says Casewell. “How inspirational is this for a nation that has a relatively young space programme? I think that is just phenomenal, that’s such an achievement.”Michele Dougherty, the lead scientist of ESA’s JUICE mission, reveals the secrets of Jupiter and its icy moons at New Scientist Live on 8 October.
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