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By the looks of it, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, the two components of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft that are on the moon, may never wake up.As of Friday late evening, India’s space agency, ISRO, tweeted on X (formerly, Twitter): “Efforts have been made to establish communication with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to ascertain their wake-up condition.”However, “As of now, no signals have been received from them,” ISRO said, adding that “efforts to establish contact will continue.”Ever since the momentous day of August 23, when ISRO...