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Shanmuga Subramanian: The Chennai-based techie who found Vikram Lander

The 33-year-old techie from Chennai, has achieved a rare feat, finding out the debris of Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Vikram lander which was dispatched in Chandrayaan 2

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This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. Green dots indicate spacecraft debris (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil. Photo credit: Nasa

Gireesh Babu Chennai
Shanmuga Subramanian's (Shan) Twitter handle has 1824 tweets and 5690 followers. In the profile, he says he is a mechanical engineer, blogger, app developer, QA engineer, an expert with Microsoft's AzureDevOps. And now, there is an addition to it - "I found Vikram Lander!"

The 33-year-old techie from Chennai, has achieved a rare feat, finding out the debris of Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Vikram lander which was dispatched in Chandrayaan 2, with the expectations of a soft launch on Moon's South Pole on September 7. However, after control was lost, it crash landed on the Moon and lost communication

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