{"id":58729,"date":"2023-09-26T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/india-chandrayaan-3-vikram-lander-pragyan-sleep-mode-failure"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:39:03","slug":"hopes-fade-for-indias-moon-lander-after-it-fails-to-wake-up-following-lunar-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58729","title":{"rendered":"Hopes fade for India\u2019s moon lander after it fails to \u2018wake up\u2019 following lunar night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into \u2018sleep mode\u2019 to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week night<\/p>\n<p>Hopes are fading for the \u201cre-awakening\u201d of India\u2019s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to make communication with the spacecraft since it went into shutdown mode to survive the freezing lunar night conditions.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/23\/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission\">made a historic landing on the south pole of the moon<\/a> in August, after a 40 day interstellar journey, and the rover had spent over a week collecting data from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/india-chandrayaan-3-vikram-lander-pragyan-sleep-mode-failure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into \u2018sleep mode\u2019 to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week nightHopes are fading for the \u201cre-awakening\u201d of India\u2019s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,299,61,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58750,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58729\/revisions\/58750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}