{"id":3244,"date":"2018-08-18T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2018-08-18T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:16:34","slug":"isro-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-in-january-2019-probe-to-orbit-moon-before-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/playschool\/isro-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-in-january-2019-probe-to-orbit-moon-before-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO TO LAUNCH CHANDRAYAAN-2 IN JANUARY 2019; PROBE TO ORBIT MOON BEFORE LANDING"},"content":{"rendered":"

India will launch its second lunar mission on 3 January next year to\u00a0land onthe moon\u00a0<\/strong>with a lander and rover, a top space official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“We are aiming to launch the mission on 3 January 2019, but the window to land on the lunar surface is open till March 2019,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan said.<\/p>\n

The Rs 800-crore lunar mission named “Chandrayaan-2<\/strong>” comes over a decade after India went up to the lunar orbit in November 2008 after “Chandr<\/strong>a<\/strong>yaan-1<\/strong>” launch onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota.<\/p>\n

\"Representational<\/p>\n

Representational image. PTI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 3,890-kg Chandrayaan-2, which will be launched onboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-3, will orbit around the moon and study its lunar conditions to collect data on its topography, mineralogy and exosphere.<\/p>\n

A lander with rover which will separate from the spacecraft will orbit the moon, and then gradually descend on the lunar surface at a designated spot. The rover’s instruments will observe and study the lunar surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lander has been named “Vikram” as a tribute to the pioneer of India’s space programme and former ISRO chairman (1963-71),\u00a0Vikram Sarabhai<\/strong>, Sivan said.<\/p>\n

This is the first time India will have a rover landing on the moon nearly 50 years after American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the eerie lunar surface in 1969.<\/p>\n

The Indian space agency, which was eyeing at the second lunar mission this year, has had to make design and functional changes to Chandrayaan-2, causing the delay and pushing the mission to January next year, Sivan said.<\/p>\n

For its Chandrayaan-1, ISRO had carried a moon impact probe vehicle to crash land on the surface from the lunar orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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