NASA found the lost eight years ago the probe
Scientists at the jet propulsion Laboratory (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) NASA has found two unmanned spacecraft. One of them was the Indian space probe Chandrayaan-1, a connection which was lost in August 2009, according to the website space Agency.
To determine the location of the spacecraft on the orbit of the moon used a new ground radar. Besides Chandrayaan-1 were also detected interplanetary station Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which was launched in 2009. Scientists say that know orbital data of the location of the station, so finding her was not difficult.
Finding Indian probe was more difficult as the device size is approximately two times smaller than a car and he stopped to signal. The search was complicated by the fact that during the circulation of the satellite around the moon could orbit it a few times to change.
Chandrayaan-1, launched October 22, 2008, became the first Indian spacecraft sent beyond earth’s orbit. The first data he transferred from lunar orbit a month later. It was assumed that two years of work, he will create a detailed Atlas of the lunar surface and studying the chemical composition of the satellite.
By the time in charge of the mission Chandrayaan-1 specialists lost contact with the probe, it stayed in orbit for 312 days and had to make more than three thousand revolutions around the moon. Representatives declared the mission of the unit is completed (albeit prematurely) and stressed that the probe managed to get a large amount of valuable scientific data.