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Important facts about India’s lunar mission – Chandrayaan-2
- The total weight of the Chandrayaan-2 is 3,850 kg (8,490 lb).
- The total cost of the mission is approximately US$141 million.
- Originally, Chandryaan-2 was scheduled to launch in 2011 and was supposed to carry Russian-made lander and rover. Since, Russia pulled out, ISRO had to develop its own lander and rover and this resulted in delay.
- The main scientific objective of Chandryaan-2 is to map the location and abundance of lunar water.
- The mission would have also studied of lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, the lunar exosphere.
- As the South Polar Region has craters that are extremely cold and everything here is frozen thus the fossil of these craters can reveal information about the early Solar System.
- Chandrayaan-2 would have also done 3D mapping of the topography of the South Polar Region, and would have determined its elemental composition and seismic activity.
- Pragyaan, the rover of the mission will operate on solar power. It will move on 6 wheels traversing 500 meters on the lunar surface at the rate of 1 cm per second, performing on-site chemical analysis and sending the data to the lander, which will relay it to the Earth station. The expected operating time of Pragyaan rover is around 14 days
- Following Chandrayaan-2 where a snag in communication led to the failure of the lander's soft landing attempt, after a successful orbital insertion, another lunar mission for demonstrating soft landing was proposed. Chandrayaan-3 will be a mission repeat of Chandrayaan-2 but will only include a lander and rover similar to that of Chandrayaan-2. It will not have an orbiter. Realisation within schedule will make ISRO the world's fourth space agency to conduct soft lunar landing after the administration of former USSR, NASA and CNSA.
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Chandrayaan 3 launch date
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