India’s first lunar probe – the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft – which was considered lost, is still orbiting the Moon. NASA scientists have found the satellite, using a new ground-based radar technique.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with Chandrayaan-1 in August 2009, almost a year after it was launched in October, 2008.
Now, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California have successfully located the spacecraft still circling some 200 kilometres above the lunar surface.