New Delhi: After Mission Chandrayaan-2, ISRO will now focus on the Gaganyaan mission. ISRO chief K Sivan said on Saturday that Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram could not be contacted. However, the orbiter is working. There are 8 instruments in the orbiter and each instrument is doing its job properly. Now our next priority is the Gaganyaan mission.

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ISRO chief K Sivan, who reached Bhubaneswar, has said that Chandrayaan-2's orbiter is doing excellent work. He has said that there are 8 instruments in the orbiter, the work of which the instrument is fixed is working exactly the same. K Sivan has said that some of the pictures from the orbiter are tremendous. K Sivan said that we had designed the orbiter such that it would continue to work for 1 year, but due to good use of fuel, the arbiter will now work for 7.5 years.

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ISRO chairman has said that we are unable to contact Vikram Lander. He said that our scientists are constantly trying. He said that our effort is to understand what the problem was with Vikram. After this, we will talk on the next step. Referring to ISRO's next mission Gaganyaan, he said that now the highest priority of ISRO is to work on the mission Gaganyaan.

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