{"id":172997,"date":"2023-09-28T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/indias-moon-lander-fails-to-awaken-after-long-lunar-night"},"modified":"2023-09-28T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:29:56","slug":"indias-moon-lander-fails-to-awaken-after-long-lunar-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/indias-moon-lander-fails-to-awaken-after-long-lunar-night","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Moon Lander Fails to Awaken After Long Lunar Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-moon-lander-fails-to-awaken-after-long-lunar-night3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India became only the fourth nation ever to land a spacecraft on the Moon earlier this summer. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is still technically underway, but its days may be numbered. After waiting several weeks for the lunar night to end, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reports that the mission\u2019s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover remain offline.<\/p>\n<p>Chandrayaan-3 arrived in orbit of the Moon in July, right alongside Russia\u2019s Luna-25 spacecraft. The uncrewed missions were both angling to be the first to touch down in the Moon\u2019s southern polar region, an area where NASA hopes to send astronauts in the coming years. Russia was on course to land first, but a system error <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/aerospace\/russias-luna-25-lander-crashes-into-the-moon\" target=\"_blank\">caused the vehicle to crash instead<\/a>. That left India to land at its leisure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/science\/indias-chandrayaan-3-successfully-lands-on-lunar-surface\" target=\"_blank\">which it did on Aug. 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chandrayaan-3 team, they\u2019ve attempted to contact the lander and rover now that the sun is shining again. However, no signals have been received from the surface. It\u2019s possible Vikram (see above) and Pragyan are well and truly dead after several weeks in the frigid night. However, the ISRO hasn\u2019t given up hope. Even if the batteries are empty, the hardware may still be working. Given some time to soak in the rays, the robots could still come back online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India became only the fourth nation ever to land a spacecraft on the Moon earlier this summer. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is still technically underway, but its days may be numbered. After waiting several weeks for the lunar night to end, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reports that the mission\u2019s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}