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After 14 days of its contribution of collecting data, it is now sleeping very well there so I advise our IT not to wake it up again so it's sleeping forever, but unfortunately we were hoping it would wake up through its ability but it couldn't happen," he said. "Many things could have gone wrong and that is why this couldn't wake up again.
Possibly if Pragyan (rover) woke up it would not be known unless communication between Pragyaan and Vikram is established," he added. "We hope that whatever data we have collected in 14 days is going to give us a fantastic scientific outcome in the coming days.
Our scientists are working on it now," said the ISRO chief. Earlier in the month, ISRO informed that the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) of its maiden solar mission, Aditya L1 is operational.
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