New Delhi: Gaganyaan mission is our next priority now,Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Sivan said on Saturday,adding that the Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved 98 per cent of itsobjectives but they are yet to establish any communication with lander Vikram.

Of Gaganyaan, Sivan said in Bhubaneswar, "We are tryingto set the target of achieving this mission by the next year. For this, we areworking on different options. But first of all, we have to understand whatreally happened to the lander. This is our first priority now."

Chandrayaan-2 was India's first mission to the moon. It wasjust 2.1 kilometers from scripting history when Vikram Lander, carrying PragyanRover, lost contact with the space agency. Chandrayaan-2 comprised of threeparts – the Orbiter, Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover.

Since then, ISRO has been making continuous efforts tolocate Vikram Lander. Though the location of the lander was traced,communication with it couldn't be established. However, ISRO said that VikramLander is intact as a 'single-piece' and not broken into pieces.

"We could not have established any communication withthe lander yet. Chandrayaan-2 had two important objectives - science andtechnology demonstration. We achieved total success in science objective whilein the technology demonstration, the success percentage was almost full. That'swhy the project can be termed as 98 per cent successful," Sivan added.