No, it’s landing there. Question: if we land enough cows on the moon, would all that methane turn the moon blue?
Reviving this thread because Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to land, I believe within the next hour.
Bad news; ISRO mission control lost contact with the lander when it was at an altitude of 2.1 kilometers.
The Doppler tracking doesn’t look good. The line should have continued in a smooth diagonal to the right as the craft continued its deceleration. Instead, it made some chaotic-looking motions at the end. Looks to me like they lost attitude control.
I don’t know about that, but we can finally start making that moon cheese I’ve been hearing about since I was a kid.
I was watching live at work with a bunch of my coworkers when they lost contact. It was fairly grim on screen. Mission control is in Bangalore, not far from our office there.
Well, hell.
Like I said in the thread for Beresheet (the private Israeli Moon landing mission that also made it nearly all the way to the lunar surface, but failed at the very last minute): Everyone’s list of Moon missions includes failures. Lots and lots of failures. After all, it’s [del]not[/del] rocket science.
Kudos and condolences to the folks who worked on this mission. You done good, folks. Have a cry and then figure it out and try again; you were so close!
I am sure the warlike spiders that thrive on the lunar regolith shot some gooey gel-like substance at the lander and caused it to crash. They are probably feasting on it now. 'Tis the reason the Apollo program was abruptly cancelled, right? They even made a movie about it, with original footage of mega-moon-spiders.
Not knowing this, the mission controller burst into tears, thinking *he *had failed, and had to be consoled like a baby by the Prime Minister.
In the 80s, the running joke in India was, ISRO should somehow help the fishermen who venture out to sea, since so many ISRO rockets regularly landed there. :eek: But today ISRO has some highly reliable launch vehicles. ISRO is a competent agency and will bounce back from this failure.
Good news, everyone!