India loses contact with spacecraft during historic moon landing attempt

India loses contact with spacecraft during historic moon landing attempt

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/07/chandrayaan-2-lander/

India’s attempt to become the first nation to soft land a robotic spacecraft at the moon’s South Pole, an unexplored region, has ended in failure, the space agency said Saturday.

Less than two miles above the lunar surface, the Vikram lander (named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space program) lost communications with the mission control.