ISRO has confirmed the launched of India’s second moon mission, Chandrayaan – 2. ISRO chairman K Sivan told and confirmed it. It will launched and powereded by GSLV Mk-3. The launch is expected to be at early morning 2:51 am on July 15 from Sriharikota space centre in Andhra Pradesh and landing is hopeful on September 6 or 7.
ISRO says it have same strategy as Chandrayaan – 1.
“We are expecting to find water. We never left any stone unturned and we’ve conducted thousands of tests,” says ISRO .
About Chandrayaan – 2
- The total weight of missile is 3.8tonnes and it costs Rs. 603 crore.The ost of vehicle GSLV is aroud 375 crore.
- It is made up of three modules, an orbiter, a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan
- It will land near Moon’s South Pole. to land on moon it will take 15 minutes .
- There are several reasons to select Moon’s South Pole to land,like solar power, flat surface presence of water and minerals.
- After landing door of rover will open. The rover and lander will have a life of oe lunar day . They will do all experiments for that day. however the orbiter has one year life.
- We will try to take images of raocks for elements like magmesium calcium and iron and a source of water. It will also help in knowingb the facts about the exosphere of the moon.
- The orbiter and lander can directly communicate with earthwhile rover cannot because of some limitations.
- The instrument for experiment is mounted on Lander.
Background
- The upcoming lunar mission is an advanced form of Chandrayaan – 1 which was launched 10 years ago.
- Chandrayaan was India’s first lunar probe which is also launched by the ISRO in 2008
- It includes lunar ,orbiter and Impactor. The vehicle through which it launched is PSLV-XL
- It was weighted 1.4 tonne .
- It was lost by ISRO.
