Posts

Showing posts with the label Space news

Chandrayaan-2

Image
                                      Chandrayaan-2 Chandrayaan-2 is India's planned second mission to the moon, which was launched on 22 July 2019 . It is a follow-up mission from the Chandrayaan-1 mission that assisted in confirming the presence of water/hydroxyl or frozen water on the moon in 2009. Chandrayaan-2 was launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India with a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket. After the launch, a module separated from the launching vehicle at the earth's orbit. And through the method of orbital maneuver, the module after many orbits finally reached the orbit around the moon on 20 August 2019. Then the module initiated lunar orbit maneuvering.                                                                  Then then the Vikram(the lander) was separated from the orbiter at the orbit of the Moon and reoriented the orbit. Then the orbiter scanned the lunar surface. And the Vikram scanned the land