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India intended to become Friday the fourth country that achieves a controlled moon landing on our satellite but although the decline of the ship 'Chandrayaan-2' has proceeded as planned during much of the maneuvers, when it was near the surface has been lost the communication with the ship, according to the announced head of the ISRO, Kailasavadivoo Sivanuno, has just announced: "The data will be analyzed," he said.
Disappointment reigned in the control room, where in addition to the Indian engineers and authorities, a group of young students had been invited to witness what would have been a historic moment for the Asian giant.
This mission to the south pole of our satellite, which has cost only 150 million dollars (about 130 million euros), consisted of three components: an orbiting satellite that will spend a year doing science around the Moon, the module that was intended to land called Vikram in homage to the father of the Indian space program-, and a small robotic vehicle (rover), which he had to work for two weeks.
With this new mission, the Asian giant, which already sent an orbiting probe to the Moon in 2008 (Chandrayaan 1), wanted to prove that it is one of the main players in the space sector and that its technological capacity goes beyond the launching of satellites to Very competitive prices.
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