Space scientist made it clear(Space )

Bengaluru: There is no hope of reactivation of Chandrayaan-3’s lander ‘Vikram’ and rover ‘Pragyan’. A well-known space (Space ) scientist said this on Friday, which signals the possible end of India’s third lunar mission. Space Commission member and former ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar, who was actively associated with the mission, said, ‘No, no, now there is no hope of it being activated again. If this was to happen, it should have happened by now.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had said on September 22 that efforts have been made to establish contact with the solar powered ‘Vikram’ lander and ‘Pragyan’ rover after the start of the new lunar day to ascertain their reactivation. possibility can be explored. It had said that at present no signals have been received from them (lander and rover) and efforts to establish contact will continue.
With the Chandrayaan-3 mission, India had created history by making a ‘soft landing’ in the south pole region of the Moon on August 23 and became the first country in the world to do so. With this, India became the fourth country in the world to do a successful ‘soft landing’ on the Moon after America, the erstwhile Soviet Union and China. ISRO had put the lander and rover into sleep mode before nightfall on the Moon on September 4 and 2 respectively, which were expected to be reactivated at the next sunrise around September 22.

The lander and rover were designed to operate for the duration of one lunar day (about 14 Earth days). According to ISRO officials, all three objectives of Chandrayaan-3 mission have been achieved which include safe ‘soft landing’ on the lunar surface, demonstration of the lunar rover and scientific experiments on the lunar surface. Regarding the achievement of Chandrayaan-3 mission, Kiran Kumar said, ‘In the larger sense, what you have definitely achieved is that you have reached an area (South Pole) where no one else has reached. And actual data of that area has not been obtained. This is really very useful information. This will benefit subsequent expeditions in terms of knowledge and in terms of planning the activities that you want to do in that area.

He also talked about the possibility of ISRO launching a mission to bring back samples from the Moon, but did not give any timeline for launching such a mission. Kumar said, ‘Yes, definitely all this will be there in future because these are all technology capabilities which you keep developing, now it (Chandrayaan-3) has achieved the feat of ‘soft landing’ and its subsequent missions. Material will be picked up from there and brought back, of course they will all be missions.
He said, ‘Work will be done on many of these things in future. Plans will be made and then proposals will be made based on the overall vision of technology development. ‘It completely depends on how the overall plan is made, and how much resources are made available, so it will be possible,’ Kumar said. It is very difficult to tell (the time frame for the sample-return mission).