Chandrayaan-2 launched successfully |
India`s most ambitious expedition to the moon Chandrayaan-2 was successfully launched on Monday by using the heavy-lift launch vehicle GSLV-Mark-3 at 2.43 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometres off Chennai. ISRO scientists would perform fifteen crucial manoeuvres to navigate the probe from an earth-bound elliptical orbit to the surface of the moon. The total cost of the mission is worked out to be 141.7 million dollars. One of its main goals is to make a soft-landing of an indigenous lander on the uncharted territory of the moon. Chandrayaan-2 will also study mineralogy and chemical composition of lunar soil, will search for water or ice in the near-South Pole of the moon, examine its atmosphere, study lunar seismic activities and will carry out mapping of the moon using high-resolution cameras.
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