New Delhi: India’s space mission Chandrayaan 3, which successfully landed on the moon on August 23 last month, has gone missing. However, efforts to restore contact with the mission are still ongoing.
According to the Indian Space Agency, the signals are still not being received from ‘Chandrayan 3’, the batteries have been damaged due to severe frost on the south pole of the moon and due to this, the communication with Chandrayan 3 is not possible.
According to media reports, chances of reactivation of Indian space mission Chandrayaan 3 are getting closer and closer with each passing day.
In this regard, the former head of the Indian Space Agency, Kiran Kumar, says that the chances of reactivation of the mission sent to the moon are decreasing with each passing hour.
Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corporation, he said that the mission might not be able to be reactivated due to the freezing temperatures on the moon. At the Moon’s south pole, the temperature drops to minus 200 to 250 degrees at night.
ISRO Chief S Somnath has said that it is not certain when contact will be made with Chandrayaan-3, but the space agency will continue efforts to establish contact.
Kiran Kumar said that efforts to activate the mission will continue till the end of the lunar day. The British media says that the duration of one day and night on the moon is more than 14 days on earth.
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