Vikram, the lander and Pragyan (rover), sitting inside Vikram, successfully separated from the orbiter at 1.15 pm on Monday, pushing India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission into its last and most crucial leg: a soft, controlled landing on Moon. “Today’s operation was great in the sense that we were able to separate the lander and rover from the orbiter. It is the first time in the history of Isro that we’ve separated two modules in space. This was very critical and we did it very meticulously,” Isro chairman K Sivan told TOI soon after the separation.
Vikram, the lander and Pragyan (rover), sitting inside Vikram, successfully separated from the orbiter at 1.15 pm on Monday, pushing India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission into its last and most crucial leg: a soft, controlled landing on Moon. “Today’s operation was great in the sense that we were able to separate the lander and rover from the orbiter. It is the first time in the history of Isro that we’ve separated two modules in space. This was very critical and we did it very meticulously,” Isro chairman K Sivan told TOI soon after the separation.