The Indian Space Research Organization’s Vikram Moon lander crash-landed on the moon.
The Vikram was launched on July 22 earlier the same year through the Chandrayaan 2 mission and carried India’s first lunar rover, Pragyan. Contact was lost with the lander during its descent, and although the orbiter later managed to photograph the lander on the moon’s surface, no further contact has been made. If successful, the landing would have made India the fourth nation to land a spacecraft on the moon.