Evloution of Chandrayaan 2 - Chandrayaan series
In 1962, Indian National Commitee on Space Research was first formed under the Prime Minister Nehru. Vikram Sarabhai, father of India's Space Programme, changed INCSR to ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). India launched it's first satellite Aryabhata on April 19, 1975. At that time, amny countries landed on the moon. India began it's journey to moon after the launch Aryabhata.
In 2008, India launched it's own rocket on it's own land, Chandrayaan 1. It carries 11 scientific instruments. Among 11, 5 instruments belongs to India and the rest of the 6 instruments are belonging to various countries. Without charging them a single paise, we include their scientific instruments on our satellite. Chandrayaan 1 flew and sucessfully found the water molecules on the moon.
On 18th September 2008, the then Prime Minister Manmohan singh approved Chandrayaan 2. Chandrayaan 2 is a orbiter - lander - rover mission. India asked Russia to design lander. But , Russia hasn't designed Lander until 2015. Hence, India decided to make it's own lander as well as rover. Atlast they decided to launch Chandrayaan 2 on March, 2018. After some problems arise in lander, they postponed the mission. And they announced the launch on 14 July, 2019. Again due to some technical issues, they again postponed the date and planned final launch on 22nd July, 2019. The orbiter will be reach on Moon's orbit by September 6, 2019 (prediction). Let's wait and watch whether the mission will suceed or not.
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| Image of earth taken by Chandrayaan 2 |
(to be continued)
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