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Chandrayaan-3 live: As the sun sets on the lunar landscape, it casts long shadows over the Shiv Shakti Point, the historic landing site of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission.
The onset of the lunar night, a period of darkness lasting approximately 14 Earth days, signals the end of all the attempts to revive the lander Vikram and rover Pragyan, despite its end of mission a month ago. Sunlight began receding on Shiva Shakti Point on September 30.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), made history when it successfully landed near the Moon’s south polar region on August 23. This marked India as the first country to achieve such a feat.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will wait another 14 days to establish contact with Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover. ISRO will continue attempts to revive the lander and rover till the next sunset on the Moon which is slated for October 6.
ISRO shared an update saying that it made efforts to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition, but as of now, no signals have been received from them. However, the space agency added that it would continue efforts to establish contact.
After a 40-day journey into space, ‘Vikram’, touched down on August 23 at the uncharted lunar South Pole making India the first country to do so. After transversing over 100 meters on the lunar surface from the Shiv Shakti Point, the touchdown spot of the lander Vikram on the lunar surface, the rover Pragyan was safely parked and set into sleep mode on September 2.