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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Hopes fade for India’s moon lander after it fails to ‘wake up’ following lunar night

The Vikram lander
India’s Chandryaan-3 moon lander was put to sleep on 2 September for two weeks but efforts to contact it since have been fruitless Photograph: AP

Hopes are fading for the “re-awakening” of India’s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to make communication with the spacecraft since it went into shutdown mode to survive the freezing lunar night conditions.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission made a historic landing on the south pole of the moon in August, after a 40-day journey, and the rover had spent over a week collecting data from the lunar surface.

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