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How come "(...) Days after the failed landing, the Indian Space Research Organization said it had located the lander, but hadn’t been able to establish communic
by mirekrusin 7y ago
How come "(...) Days after the failed landing, the Indian Space Research Organization said it had located the lander, but hadn’t been able to establish communication." but the lander was in pieces spanning several kilometers?
- tinus_hn 7y agoPerhaps there was some kind of transponder that didn’t break?
- marsokod 7y agoBecause these press releases were political at best. No-one in the space industry was believing them: unrealistic, playing on the words and not going through proper channels.
- shakna 7y agoIndia only admitted that the lander crashed a week ago [0]. There seems to be a lot of political standing riding on these missions. [0] https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782890646/2-months-after-failed-moon-landing-india-admits-its-craft-crashed https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782890646/2-months-after-fail...