The Indian Space Research Organisation, or Isro, is makingall possible efforts to establish communication with Vikram lander that hasbeen lying on the moon for three days now, the space agency tweeted on Tuesday.

“VikramLander has been located by the orbiter of #Chandrayaan2,but no communication with it yet,” the official Isro handle tweeted on Tuesday.It said the agency was making all possible efforts to establish communicationwith the lander.

The space agency has 11 more days to keep trying. Themission life of the lander is 14 days that is equivalent to one lunar day. Vikramlander, named after the father of India’s space programme Vikram Sarabhai, wasscheduled to soft-land on the lunar surface, past midnight on Friday.

The Vikram lLander had followed the planned descenttrajectory from its orbit of 35 km to just below 2 km above the surface. Bythen, Chandrayaan-2 had covered 380,000 km.But communication with the landersnapped just 2.1 km short of the lunar surface. It is believed that the landermay have travelled at a faster pace than planned and had a hard-landing.

The last mile has always been considered the most trickypart of the mission. Isro chief K Sivan had described the final moments, whenVikram would touch down on the moon’s surface, as the most terrifying part ofthe mission.Isro hasn’t formally commented on the state of the lander.

But news agency Press Trust of India had yesterday quoted ascientist at the space agency to say that the lander was in one piece but waslying in a tilted position. This angle, the scientist suggested, had made itdifficult to re-establish contact with Vikram lander.

Without any communication, even if the lander and the rover,Pragyan, are intact, they will not be able to transmit any scientific data backto Earth.Isro says the mission had already achieved 90-95% of its objectivesand would contribute to lunar science.