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BENGALURU: After a 47-day journey carrying the anticipation of 1.35 billion people, Chandrayaan-2 ’s landing module went silent when Vikram, the lander was just 2km from the lunar surface.Isro chairman K Sivan said the initial path was normal but communication with Vikram was lost at 2.1km from the lunar surface and data was being analysed.Till date, only three countries — Russia, the US and China—have successfully soft-landed on the Moon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who witnessed the attempted landing from the mission control complex here, spoke to the Isro team and said they had done a commendable job.Quick Edit: Isro will learn lessons from setbackHe asked them to be courageous and keep working hard and said, "We are proud of you and we are with you. Ups and downs keep happening in life. I am confident we will succeed in the next attempt."Sivan had earlier described the final 15-minute powered descent as “15 minutes of terror”. India was attempting to soft-land a probe on Moon for the first time, although it has already carried out an orbiter mission, Chandrayaan-1 , around Moon in 2008.Chandrayaan-1 carried a Moon Impact Probe (MIP), and the site at which it crash-landed was named Jawahar Point. Chandrayaan-2, comprising an orbiter, Vikram and a rover Pragyan , was launched on July 22 from Sriharikota.Vikram had a textbook rough braking phase for 10 minutes, which saw the mission control room burts into applause. But minutes after the rough braking, and barely 2km from the Moon's landing spot, the trajectory on the screen showed an abrupt dip and the signal was lost.When the mission was cleared by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on September 18, 2008, the project was to be a joint venture with Russia, whose space agency Roscosmos was to provide the lander. However, that deal fell through and Isro decided to go solo in 2012.