Vikram (Chandrayaan 2 lander)

Launch data:

Mission details:

• The Vikram lander separated from the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter at 0745 UTC Sep 2, 2019. It carried out a landing attempt on Sep 6, but lost attitude and contact at an altitude of 2.3 km. It appears that Vikram impacted the surface at about 2023 UTC not far from the planned landing site at 70.9S 22.7E.
• Despite the apparent crash-landing of the lander, ISRO has confirmed that all the instruments on board the orbiter are working well. The current orbiter carries eight different instruments — and Indian scientists are already poring over some of the mission′s very first science data. On Oct. 4, ISRO released photos the orbiter′s High Resolution Camera took on Sept. 5 of a crater called Boguslawsky E, located near the lunar south pole.