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With days being passed and the Imdian Space Research Organisation unable to make contact with Chandrayaan-3's Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover, the hope dims for further contact.
ISRO's Chief S Somanath has said he was satisfied with the prospect of calling its successful lunar mission to an end.
"It is OK if it does not wake up because the rover has done what it was expected to do," S. Somanath told reporters according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
"As of now, no signals have been received from them," it added.
The world's most populous nation has been steadily matching the achievements of established spacefaring powers at a fraction of their cost.
It has a comparatively low-budget space programme, but one that has grown considerably in size and momentum since first sending a probe to orbit the Moon in 2008.
Experts say India can keep costs low by copying and adapting existing technology, and thanks to an abundance of highly skilled engineers who earn a fraction of their foreign counterparts' wages.
India has been doing very well in its space exploration projects, launching one mission after another. What happened with Chandrayaan-3 was nothing less than an achievement, its reviving back was nothing less than a chance, a miracle or a hope ISRO was waiting for but the mission already did end before.