In Depth: How Chennai techie located Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander debris

Indian techie Shanmuga Subramanian was credited by Nasa for helping the US space agency to discover Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander's debris on the lunar surface.

Shanmuga Subramanian beat both NASA and ISRO in locating Chandrayaan-2's elusive Vikram lander by scouring through the images from the US space agency’s Moon orbiting spacecraft.

NASA, which released images showing the site of the Vikram lander’s impact and the associated debris field, acknowledged the role of the mechanical engineer and app developer in locating the site of the debris.