When it was launched in 2008, Chandrayaan-1 made history as India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. However, it stopped responding to computers back on earth in 2009. It vanished then, and it has been drifting throughout space ever since, considered lost to the world. However, NASA has recently found it again, nearly a decade after its disappearance.
NASA was using a new ground radar to locate other spacecraft- and detected two, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. It was an impressive feat to detect India’s lost spacecraft, especially because the Chandrayaan-1 is less than half the size of a smart car. The new technology NASA used to detect the spacecraft is called an interplanetary radar, and has been used to see small asteroids several million miles away. It can also be used to find lost spacecraft. This technology has been deemed “crucial to future moon missions” (CNN), and will be very helpful in the future. I think it’s a good thing that this new technology was used to find the missing spacecraft. It cost India a lot of money to launch the Chandrayaan-1 into space, and it’s a good thing that it’s been recovered. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/health/nasa-chandrayaan-spacecraft-found/index.html
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