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Took me 2-3 days to zero in on crash site: Chennai techie who found Vikram lander debris

Indian amateur space scientist Shanmuga Subramanian, who beat both NASA and ISRO in locating Chandrayaan-2's elusive Vikram lander, said it took him two-three days to zero in on the crash site.

"It gives me a little bit of satisfaction to find out the location. It took me a lot of time to get a grip on...two-three days to zero in on the crash site," Shanmuga Subramanian said in an exclusive interview to India Today TV.

Shanmuga Subramanian, sitting in his lab in Chennai, 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.

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