Chandrayaan 2 paid tribute to Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme by naming the lander Vikram. 2019 marks Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th birth anniversary. It was designed to function for one lunar day that is 14 Earth days. It weighed 1,471 kilograms.
Vikram lander contained a total of five engines and a set of scientific instruments. It was supposed to detach from the orbiter and get into a low lunar orbit in order to deploy the rover. After detaching the rover, the lander was supposed to stay on the lunar surface for further scientific explorations for fifteen days. Unfortunately, Vikram could not attain soft-landing, it crash landed instead. The connection with the lander was lost initially. Though the lander was later spotted through thermal imaging, its condition is not known.
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