Chandrayaan – 2: Launch rescheduled to 22nd July

Mission Chandrayaan is the mission to the moon. It will give headway to India for discovering more about the nature of the moon. In this effort, ISRO launched its first Rocket, Chandrayaan -1 on 22 October 2008. The mission Chandrayaan focuses on finding the origin, evolution, identification of chemicals in lunar highland rocks and chemical imaging of the permanently shadowed north and south polar regions. Unfortunately, Chandrayaan -1 got crashed after 312 days of successful operation.  Now, India’s heaviest rocket named ‘Bahubali’ is rescheduled to launch on 22nd July 2019 from Sriharikota’s Launchpad. Earlier, it was to launch on July 15 but was called off due to a technical snag.

What is Chandrayaan: 10 Facts You Need to Know?

1.  It is the first space mission to carry a soft landing on the moon’s south polar region.
2. It is a lunar mission by ISRO comprising an orbiter and Lander with a rover called (Pragyan).
3. It is using India’s heaviest rocket, GSLV MK – III, nicknamed as ‘Bahubali’.
4. The success of the mission will make India, fourth-ever country after United States, China, and Russia- to soft-land on Moon.
5. It is carrying 13 scientific instruments for space experiments. They will do the imaging of rocks to find elements like calcium, magnesium, and iron.
6. It will look for the presence of water and other minerals on the lunar surface.
7. The Rover present can conduct scientific experiments and can travel up to 500 meters from the area of landing.
8. The Lander will have Tricolour on it. Also, one wheel of the rover will have the Ashoka Chakra.
9. The project cost approx. 960 Crore which is way more than double the cost of Chandrayaan -1.
10. It will have 14 Indian Payloads or study devices. They will study topography, seismography, surface chemical composition, mineral identification and distribution etc.

Conclusion

The success of Chandrayaan – 2 will make India, the first country to land on the South Polar Region of the moon. It will lay the foundation to discover more about the nature of the Natural Satellite, the moon. After the decline of launch, on 15th July, the launch is rescheduled on 22 July. We present our best wishes to the Indian Space Research Organization and all the scientists associated, for the success of the mission.

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