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How Isro control room went from jubilant to silent as Chandrayaan-2 lander lost contact

Enthusiasm soon turned into a sense of despair at ISRO's Mission Operations Complex as India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2's lander Vikram lost communication with the ground stations on Saturday just ahead of the soft landing.
Contact with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander was lost minutes before the probe, which housed the six-wheeled rover Pragyaan, was to touch down on the lunar surface.

Watch the visuals from inside the Isro control room in Bengaluru when scientists realised they had lost contact with the Vikram lander.

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