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The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Saturday tried to put on a brave face hours after it lost contact with Chandrayaan-2’s landing module near the moon’s surface, leading to nationwide disappointment. Scientists of the space agency, however, indicated that it was a setback, not a failure.
India was trying to become just the fourth nation to pull off a soft landing on the moon — following the former Soviet Union, the US and China — and the only country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole.
“The Chandrayaan-2 mission is very close to 100 per cent success,” Isro Chairman K Sivan
