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19 September 2019

This artist's rendition assumes everything went according to plan, only it didn't.

CHENNAI, India -- As India completes a fortnight of national hoping for a response from the lunar lander Vikram, scientists at the India Space Research Organisation (Isro) confirmed that the lander is kaput.

A scientist who analyzed the image from the lunar orbiter said Vikram "was definitely not on its legs. I could see at least two of its four legs protruding. It was either upturned or tilted." In fact, if the number of protruding legs he saw was four, it might mean that Vikram was upside-down. It was certainly upside-down during its descent to the moon, which meant that firing the retro-rockets had an effect that was anything but retro, in fact accelerating Vikram to 200,000 kilometers/hour.

Another scientist privy to the study, and equally anonymous, gave figures that contradicted those given by Isro. He said contact with Vikram was lost not at 2100 meters above the surface but 300, and that Isro did not need 14 days but about 14 seconds to realise it had launched a spectacular dud.

Two more unnamed scientists said there could have been an error in Vikram's Automatic Landing Function (ALF), written at Bengaluru. "We have to see if it was properly reviewed before execution," said one of them, as the UR Rao Satellite Centre apparently could have preloaded a program that no one had looked at.

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The cause for the loss of communication is also being studied, though aiming the antennae straight down would have to be one possibility. Another is that, at about the same time, the Narendra Modi government was removing Kashmir's statehood and demoting it to a "union territory." Telephone and internet was cut to give the mostly Muslim residents some "quiet time" to adjust to the change of their status. If Vikram were a resident of Kashmir, it could have been subject to this blackout, though it probably would have carried an improvised explosive device (IED) and blown up its lunar orbiter first.

India now proudly joins an exclusive club of nations that have crash-landed expensive scientific equipment on the surface of the moon.

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