FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA — NASA has located the Chandrayaan-1, a missing Indian spacecraft, nearly 8 years after it went missing. <br /> <br />The lunar probe, India’s first, was launched in Oct. 2008 but went missing after 312 days. <br /> <br />According to a NASA news release, the space agency sent microwave beams from a 230-foot antenna at their Goldstone Observatory in Fort Irwin, California. <br /> <br />These microwave beams were trained on the moon and the spacecraft’s predicted orbit over the lunar north pole. <br /> <br />The Chandrayaan-1 passed through the beam and bounced back radar echoes that were received by the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia. <br /> <br />The space agency say this same tracking method may have potential use in future robot and human missions to the moon.
