The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) pointed its laser altimeter instrument, called LOLA, toward a tiny retroreflector on Vikram, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lunar lander ...

It was hoped India's moon lander and rover, Vikram and Pragyan, would awaken on September 22. They haven't responded to wake-up messages.

Although a robust data set, scientists have been hungry for more in the 50 years since the Apollo missions. And Vikram’s data is doubly valuable, as no lunar lander has ever visited the Moon’s ...

ISRO's U.R. Rao Satellite Centre unveiled a full-scale model of Chandrayaan-3 with Vikram lander and Pragyaan rover at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum. Project director P ...

It’s admirable that ISRO has faith in its lander to survive a not-so-soft impact on the Moon, but the likelihood that the Vikram spacecraft will actually wake back up is incredibly slim ...

The Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) aboard the Vikram lander conducted this experiment at the landing site of 69.37° South and 32.32° East, operating for 190 hours between August 24 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. India’s Vikram lunar lander didn’t land on the Moon. It crashed back in early ...

Chandrayaan-3 landed within a buried impact crater, which is around 160 km in size, 4.4 km deep, and likely to be older than the South Pole Atkin (SPA) basin.

The news comes after LRO successfully bounced a laser off India's Vikram lander in December. Since then, the orbiter has hit the lander's target three more times, according to NASA.