The court said that the remit of the Committee shall be as to provide an overall assessment of the situation including the relevant causal factors.
He said a large number of advance satellite launches are planned in the coming months.
Noting that ISRO scientists have not given up on contacting the lander nearly a month after they lost contact with it in the early hours of September 7, Devereaux said they need to scan the data they got from it till the link snapped.
The ISRO statement is silent on the members of the national committee of academicians, the committee chief and the time frame by which their report will be shared with the nation.
