AS A INDIAN, EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY WAS WAITING FOR THIS DAY. WE WERE AWAKEN TILL 3 AM. I WAS VERY SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THE MOSTLY PEOPLE WERE STICK TO THEIR TV SCREEN IN THE LATE NIGHT, JUST TO SEE THE LANDING OF OUR SATELLITE ON MOON'S SURFACE BECAUSE OF OUR BELIEF ON OUR SCIENTISTS. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IT DID NOT HAPPEN ACCORDINGLY WHAT WE EXPECTED.
AFTER TRAVELLING A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 3.8 LAKH KM AND THEN, HOWEVER, AT ABOUT 1:52 AM (IST), THE LANDER DEVIATED FROM ITS INTENDED TRAJECTORY AT AROUND 2.1 KILOMETERS (1.3 MI) FROM LANDING, COMMUNICATION WAS LOST AND APPARENTLY CRASHED. I CAN SEE EVERY EYE FULL OF TEARS BECAUSE AFTER ACHIEVING 99 % TASK AND THEN YOU FAILED TO MAKE IT 100 % WE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW ONE IS FEELING NOW.
FROM "ALL IS NOT LOST " TO "A BROKEN DREAM" THERE IS A MIXED REACTION IN FOREIGN MEDIA. SOME OF WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS :
1). India loses contact with Chandrayaan-2 Moon lander during its descent (The New York Times)India’s attempt to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s South Pole on Saturday appeared to end in failure.
2). Chandrayaan-2: India's second moon mission may have failed as scientists lose contact with probe (The Telegraph)
The Indian space agency lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission on Friday night, in a setback to the nation's ambitious plan to land an unmanned probe near the south pole of the moon.
3). India’s first lunar lander falls silent just before touchdown (National Geographic)
An Indian spacecraft’s unprecedented attempt to make a soft, controlled landing in the moon’s south polar region has ended in excruciating silence: Shortly before touchdown, the robotic lander Vikram—part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission—fell out of contact with mission control.
4). Missing lander or no, India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission isn’t over (Quartz)
It looks like India won’t become the fourth nation to softly land a robot on the Earth’s moon today.
5). India’s first attempt to land on the moon appears to have failed (The Washington Post)
India’s first attempt to land on the moon went awry early Saturday when the country’s space agency lost contact with the lander as it neared the lunar site, minutes before touchdown was expected.BUT WILL IT AFFECT OTHER PROJECTS OF ISRO?
THE ANSWER IS BIG NO. THE ISRO CHAIRMAN DR. K SIVAN SAID IN A MEETING WITH DOORDARSHAN TEAM THAT WE HAVE VARIOUS MISSION IN COMING MONTHS. AND WE WILL IMPLEMENT ALL OUR PROJECTS AS PER PLAN.
IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY OF COMMUNICATING AGAIN WITH VIKRAM LANDER?
ADDING WITH HIS WORDS, MR. SIVAN HAD STATED THAT OUR SCIENTISTS WILL TRY TO CONTACT THE LANDER FOR THE NEXT 14 DAYS AS LIFE SPAN OF LANDER IS OF 1 LUNAR DAY WHICH IS EQUAL TO 14 EARTH DAYS. DR. SIVAN DESCRIBED PM MODI AS A "SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND SUPPORT". "HIS SPEECH GAVE US MOTIVATION. IN HIS SPEECH, THE SPECIAL PHRASE THAT I NOTED WAS: ONE SHOULD NOT AIM FOR RESULTS WITH SCIENCE BUT FOR EXPERIMENTS, FOR EXPERIMENTS WILL LEAD TO RESULTS," HE SAID.
DR. SIVAN IN AN INTERACTION WITH DD NEWS:
WHAT IS THE GOOD THING WE HAVE SEEN IN THIS SO FAR?
WE ARE GETTING SUPPORT FROM ALL THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY AS WELL AS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ON THIS ISSUE. AND I STRONGLY SUPPORT OUR SCIENTISTS APPROACH AS I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO EXPERIMENT WITHOUT FAILURE AND EACH FAILURE WILL LEAD US TO NEW INVENTION. AND EVERYONE HAS FAILED SOMEWHERE IN OUR LIFE BUT THAT DID NOT STOP US IN LIVING THE DREAMS WE ALWAYS WANTED TO LIVE. ALSO, WE HAVE SEEN OUR PRIME MINISTER ENCOURAGING THE EFFORTS OF CHANDRAYAN-2 TEAM AND CHEERING THEM FOR THEIR FUTURE PROJECTS WHICH SHOWS THE POSITIVE SIDE OF HIM AS A LEADER OF THE COUNTRY. HERE IS A ATTACHED VIDEO CLIP OF MR. MODI'S SPEECH
