India Loses Communication During Attempted Moon Mission

India hoped to become the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon with their Chandrayaan-2 space mission. But their space agency, ISRO, lost communication with their lander just before the mission was complete. CBS News Space Consultant Bill Harwood joined CBSN to discuss the apparent failure.

[christothaliyath]

Landing on moon isn't hard but the dark side of the moon was hard and no one has done that

[pieordi]

the area they attempted to land is very treacherous. Good hustle, wish them success next time around

[rosenbaum]

Damn, that sucks. All that hard work and effort to accomplish such an amazing feat only to lose communication at a crucial moment. Maybe they can re-establish communication. If not, they still got far.

[deveshmanral]

Didn't they know that there are decepticons on the dark side of the moon (I feel really bad for ISRO)

[dianneiverglynne]

To all my friends in India, I'm sorry for your disappointment! Standing applause from me! Put your backs to this setback and I'm sure you can land the on next try. We are rooting for you!!

[YuSoMadBra]

So you're telling me they tried to land on the dark side of the moon and they lost coms as it was landing? ALIENS!!!

[Sean-hzrt]

It's not Failure...its success...!! 97% of mission is successful...lost contact with team only few meters above the surface of moon !! We are proud of ISRO...more success to come !!

[dunkmetal]

So many jeoulos keyboard warriors, from people who just finished Thier shift at McDonald's.

[vishnup]

We will reach there one day, we believe in our scientist world going to watch it we will keep try until success. Jai hind

[suvamkumarsarangi]

-4th nation for soft landing in moon
-1st nation to land in South Pole and soft landing.
-1st nation to find water on moon
-Indian already reached moon in 2008(but it was not soft landing)
-chandrayan 2 = orbiter+(lander{Rover})
-orbiter✔️
Lander✔️(it has self is but power of 14 days)
Lander gets command from the orbiter
But the Landers receiver is misplaced or something➡️and that is the only problem
chandrayan 2 has been 95% success. (Cus orbitor still working)

[royrice]

The dark side of the moon is held “off limits” by a black monolith of unknown origin. 👾👾👾

[mansi]

Still communication can start we have to wait minimum 14 days nice effort India isro👏

[visteobman]

The 1959 Soviet and 1962 US were crash landings. Soft landings began in 1966 by both countries.

[TT-fthk]

Good job India, I feel sorry it didnt succeed but its a step forward any how.

[MysticDreamer]

I feel bad for the space technicians at ISRO. As was stated in this video any number of things could have gone wrong. Something as simple as a large boulder being in the way just a few feet from touchdown is enough to cause a disaster. So sad. They were so close to success only to be set back to square one. Of course my boulder-in-the-way is just a guess. It could have been anything. But the bottom line is that it may have been something that was totally beyond their control. It's impossible to say what the actual problem was. It could have been some sort of technical failure of the craft too. They may never know. I hope they do figure out what happened. That would at least give the technicians some closure.

[DARKKNIGHT-uruz]

Disappointed to see lot of negative comments
We will come back strongly again

[BugsNStuf]

I wish they could of lost communication with me. But I’m still getting a bunch of scam calls😂😂

[flaminmongrel]

India is already the fourth nation to have an orbiter on moon and first to have a rover on the south pole of the moon (the rover has been located on the southern region).

[freddiemercurybulsara]

India is mother of human civilizations - Mark Twain

[Sean-hzrt]

India was first country to reach MARS in its first attempt...!! India was the first country to discover water on moon with there first moon mission !! NASA & other space agencies tried many times and that's when they wer able to get success...dont worry ISRO we are proud of you...!! This is not Failure..its success 🇮🇳