section_path: 21st century uncrewed soft landings and attempts/Chandrayaan-2 (India)
section_name: Chandrayaan-2 (India)
paragraph_text: Chandrayaan-2 (India)
  
  ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, launched Chandrayaan-2 on 22 July 2019. It had three major modules: orbiter, lander and rover. Each of these modules had scientific instruments from scientific research institutes in India and the US. On 7 September 2019 contact was lost with the Vikram lander at an altitude of 2.1 km (1.3 mi) after a rough braking phase. Vikram was later confirmed to have crashed and been destroyed.