09-22-2019, 07:00 AM
Yeah @xdude. It's one for sure. NASA's budget for it's missions as of 2018 was $21 billion whereas ISRO's was only $1.2 billion. That was a big reason why you know NASA's lunar craft reached in approximately 3 days whereas we required around 7 weeks, ie approximately 48 days.
For your question regarding what went wrong with Vikram, here's it:
That's basically it. And the rover, ie, Pragyan, was supposed to hatch out of Vikram on it's own. Vikram had solar panels installed which would power the rover enough for it to do it's job. The mission was never meant to introduce human intervention. It was full automatic. Still something definitely could've been done if they could contact the lander, ie, Vikram first. Then a manual troubleshoot might have been possible.
For your question regarding what went wrong with Vikram, here's it:
(09-17-2019, 09:28 AM)sohamb03 Wrote: ...It showed that even after losing contact with the Earth data center, the lander did a successful hard-landing on the Moon and is now in a tilted position. What happened was that at the point if losing contact, the lander did a somersault and owing to phenomena like charged dust thrust and such others, managed to land on the Moon. ....
That's basically it. And the rover, ie, Pragyan, was supposed to hatch out of Vikram on it's own. Vikram had solar panels installed which would power the rover enough for it to do it's job. The mission was never meant to introduce human intervention. It was full automatic. Still something definitely could've been done if they could contact the lander, ie, Vikram first. Then a manual troubleshoot might have been possible.