Chandrayaan 2 successfully tested |
Indian space research organization ISRO`s scientists carried out the first full dress rehearsal of the launch of Chandrayaan-2, India`s second probe to the Moon, ahead of its flight on Monday, July 15. The launch will be carried out onboard the gigantic GSLV MkIII rocket, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota Range. Space scientists simulated a blast-off of the rocket, an 18 minute flight before setting free Chandrayaan-2 on its journey of more than three lakh km towards the Moon, and functioning of the Deep Space Network (DSN) Station on the outskirts of Bengaluru. The 1,000-crore orbiter-lander-rover mission would reach an orbit, about 100 km from the Moon in the first week of September. The lander `Vikram`, carrying the rover `Pragyan` inside it, would make a soft landing in the South Pole region of the moon. If India succeeds in a soft landing on the Moon, it would be the fourth nation to do so after the US, Russia and China. Earlier this year Israel failed in its maiden attempt to soft land on the moon through a Beresheet spacecraft, which crashed after reaching very close to the lunar surface.
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