Soon after news ncy ANI quoted ISRO saying that exact location of Vikram Lander of Chandrayaan 2 has been spotted, ISRO chief K Sivan has told PTI that Vikram's landing must have been a hard-landing. On September 7, India's first moon mission Chandrayaan 2 was scheduled to make a soft-landing on moon's south pole with its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover. However, just minutes before touchdown, communication with lander was lost even as Vikram lander was only 2.1 kilometres away from lunar surface. Following unfortunate loss of communication with lander, ISRO chief said that attempts will be made to re-establish communication with Lander in next 14 days. 

On Sunday, September 8, Sivan told PTI that though Vikram's landing on Moon's surface must have been a hard-landing, re is still clarity if Vikram's module was damd during landing. "We do t kw if Vikram module was damd during hard-landing on Lunar surface. Efforts to establish contact with Vikram module continues," ISRO chief said PTI. 

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ISRO Chairman Sunday has also said to ANI that y have spotted location of Vikram Lander on Lunar surface. Sivan also said that Chandrayaan 2's orbiter has clicked a rmal im of Vikram Lander. While ISRO has t yet established any communication with Lander, y are still trying to do same, according to ANI. Sivan has assured that communication with Vikram will be established soon, according to ANI.

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Finding Vikram efforts

Earlier on Saturday, ISRO chief K Sivan had confirmed that attempts are still being made to establish contact with Vikram lander. Communication with Lander was lost on early Saturday morning while it was just 2.1 km away from lunar surface, attempting to soft-land on moon. Sivan furr informed that attempts would be made to establish a link for next 14 days - a lunar day. He added that a parallel search will be conducted by orbiter.

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Speaking to Doordarshan in his first interview after contact was lost with lander, K Sivan said, " science we are going to do won't be just for one year, it'll be for all seven years. Yes, right w communication is lost but we will try to establish a link, that effort will be going on. We will try for next 14 days. If at all we are succeeding, we will be able to operate and will get required data. We will also parallelly search with orbiter." 

What happened during Vikram's soft-landing?

Earlier on Saturday morning at 1:50 AM when Vikram was scheduled to land, ISRO's Deep Antenna lost communication with Chandrayaan-2's lander- Vikram as it descended towards lunar surface. lander had descended from 30 km to 2km smoothly. During final smooth braking st, it had lost communication with Mission Control. Vikram was aimed at soft-landing on moon, making India fourth country to do so.   

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