Friday, November 11, 2016

ISRO goes ahead with Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon


ISRO is busy conducting tests for its ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission at its facility in Challakere in Karnataka - Chandrayaan-2 is expected to be launched tentatively between 2017 and 2018. Chandrayaan-2 would be India's second mission to the Moon.
It is an advanced version of the previous Chandrayaan-1 mission and consists of an orbiter, lander and rover configuration. The orbiter would be installed with scientific payloads and will orbit around the Moon. The lander will soft-land on the Moon at a specified site and deploy the rover.
This has been reported in deccanherald.com dated 11 November 2016.
The scientific payloads that will be onboard the orbiter, lander and rover are expected to perform mineralogical and elemental studies of the lunar surface.
In preparation of the Moon landing, simulated lunar craters have been created. These caters resemble the terrain of the Moon and have been created on the ground at the facility in Challakere to test instruments and sensors on the lander of Chandeayaan-2. The artificial craters are part of the 'hazard avoidance and landing' exercise. The lander is planned to be landed at a place on the Moon which does not have too much of slope to avoid one of the legs of the lander getting in a crater.


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