Vikram lander located on lunar surface: ISRO

The Chandrayaan-2's Vikram module has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, ISRO chairman K Sivan said yesterday, in an admission that the planned soft-landing wasn't successful. "Yes, we have located the lander on the lunar surface. It must have been a hard-landing", Sivan told PTI. The image of the lander rover 'Pragyan' is housed inside it was captured by on-board camera of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which is healthy, safe and functioning normally in the intended orbit around the moon. India's bold mission to soft-land on the moon suffered a setback with the 'Vikram' module losing communication with ground stations, just 2.1 km from the lunar surface during its final descent in the early hours of Saturday.