Our orbiter located Vikram lander first: ISRO

December 04, 2019 08:43

ISRO chief K Sivan has rejected NASA's claims that they have located the debris of the crashed Vikram lander on the lunar surface and said the Indian Space Research Organisation had located it long back.

ISRO chief K Sivan has said, "Our own orbiter had located Vikram lander. We had already declared that on our website, you can go back and see."

On Tuesday, NASA released some images showing the site of the Vikram lander's impact and the associated debris field while also acknowledging the role of a Chennai-based mechanical engineer and app developer in locating the site of the debris.

Three days after Vikram lander crashed on the lunar surface, on September 10, ISRO had tweeted, "Vikram Lander has been located by the orbiter of Chandrayaan 2, but no communication with it yet."

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