ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 or GSLV-F10 launch in April to aim for Moon’s south pole

Source:-ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 or GSLV-F10 launch in April to aim for Moon’s south pole

Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the Moon under which the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will for the first time attempt to land a rover on the moon’s south pole, will be launched in April, Jitendra Singh, in-charge of the Department of Space said today.

The rover of India’s second lunar mission, costing nearly Rs 800 crore, will be made to land near the yet-unexplored south pole, ISRO’s newly-appointed chairman K Sivan said.Picture by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shows the surface of the moon taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP), after separating from India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.

“India is going to launch Chandrayaan-2 in April. It is under Chandrayaan-1 mission that the ISRO spotted water on Moon. Chandrayaan-2 is a further extension of the project and it is as good as landing a man on Moon.”

– Singh told reporters

Chandrayaan-2 will be ISRO’s first inter-planetary mission to land a rover on any celestial body.

K Sivan noted that the window to launch the mission is between April and November in 2018.

“The targeted date is April. In case we miss the April date, we will launch it in November.”

– K Sivan

Talking about reason behind landing the rover near the south pole of Moon, he said it is a “very tricky area” with rocks formed a million years ago.

“It has very old rocks. This could possibly help us understand the origin of universe,” he said.

Another reason, he cited, behind landing the rover near the south pole was that the area has not been explored by other missions.

“Most of the lunar missions in the past have explored the area around the equator of the moon,” Sivan added.

GSLV-F10/CHANDRAYAAN-2 MISSION

Chandrayaan-2 is India’s second mission to the Moon. It is a totally indigenous mission comprising of an Orbiter, Lander and Rover.

After reaching the 100 km lunar orbit, the Lander which houses the Rover will separate from the Orbiter. After a controlled descent, the Lander will soft land on the lunar surface at a specified site and deploy the Rover.

The mission will carry a six-wheeled Rover which will move around the landing site in semi-autonomous mode as decided by the ground commands.

The instruments on the rover will observe the lunar surface and send back data, which will be useful for analysis of the lunar soil and the south pole of the celestial body.

The Chandrayaan-2 weighs around 3,290 kg and would orbit around the moon and perform the objectives of remote sensing the moon.

The payloads will collect scientific information on lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, lunar exosphere and signatures of hydroxyl and water-ice.

 

 

 

 

Source:- India Today

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