Sep 7, 2019 · ISRO scientists believe a malfunction occurred during the "15 minutes of terror": the duration of the lander's descent from lunar orbit to the surface. In this critical phase, the lander was functioning autonomously, based on in-built intelligence, with no direct commands from ground stations.

2 days ago · In recent times, there have been two major mission failures for ISRO -- in 2022, the first flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) failed to deliver the satellites in the required ...

Aug 12, 2021 · An Indian rocket carrying a new Earth-observation satellite for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) suffered a catastrophic failure shortly after launching early Thursday (Aug. 12) from...

Nov 26, 2019 · The robotic Vikram craft would have made India the fourth country to successfully land on the moon. Instead, contact was lost — and now, authorities have formally acknowledged it crashed.

Aug 23, 2023 · Recent attempts to touch down on the moon — a feat first accomplished nearly 60 years ago by the former Soviet Union’s robotic Luna-9 probe — have been particularly fraught with failure. But on...

Aug 25, 2023 · In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the Indian Space Research Organisation has...

Jul 14, 2023 · An Indian spacecraft is blazing its way toward the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to a failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover on the lunar surface.

Aug 26, 2023 · India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole after Russia's attempt at a lunar touch down in the same area ended in failure following an engine malfunction.

Jul 24, 2024 · Dramatic footage of an exploding SpaceX rocket has been spliced with clips of Indian space agency workers monitoring a doomed 2021 mission in misleading Chinese social media posts that mocked...

Feb 2, 2025 · Latest data from the Space Track catalog maintained by the U.S. military show that that satellite remains in a similar orbit, with a perigee of 165 kilometers and apogee of 37,582 kilometers.