New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday, September 22 said it has made efforts to establish communication with its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3’s lander Vikram and rover Pragyan to ascertain their ‘wake-up condition’ after they had been put into sleep mode early this month. However, as of now, no signals have been received from them, PTI reported.
The primary challenge for ‘Pragyan and Vikram’ lies in reactivating after enduring the extreme -200 degrees Celsius temperatures.
If the onboard instruments withstand the low temperatures on the Moon, the modules can reactivate and resume their mission ofsending information from the moon for the next 14 days.
“Efforts have been made to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition. As of now, no signals have been received from them. Efforts to establish contact will continue.” ISRO said in a post on ‘X’.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Efforts have been made to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition.As of now, no signals have been received from them.
Efforts to establish contact will continue.
— ISRO (@isro) September 22, 2023
“We have put both the lander and rover on sleep mode because temperature would go as low as minus 120-200 degree Celsius. From September 20 onwards, sunrise will be going on at the Moon and by September 22 we hope that the solar panel and other things will be fully charged, so we will be trying to revive both the lander and rover, ” ISRO’s Space Applications Centre director, Nilesh Desai, had told PTI on Thursday.