Chandrayaan 2 launch date was april
According to media reports, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch its second lunar mission, called Chandrayaan-2, to the moon’s South Pole only in October.
Earlier, the mission was slated to be launched in April, with ISRO chairman K Sivan stating that the window for the mission launch will be open until November.
Why Chandrayaan 2 was postponed ?
An ISRO official said that several tests were yet to be done, adding that further delays cannot be ruled out if systems were still not in place by October.
“We do not want to be in a hurry,” he said.
Interestingly, if the mission does launch in October, it will coincide with the 10th anniversary of Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar mission.
Chandrayaan-2 is an indigenous project that will carry an orbiter (with a one-year mission span), a lander, and a rover (with a 15-day mission span) to the moon.
It will be ISRO’s first mission aiming to land a rover on a celestial body and is expected to cost Rs. 800 crore.
It will use the GSLV Mark 2 rocket for the launch.
Chandrayaan 2 will have a unique landing zone.
The mission aims to soft-land the moon rover on the lunar surface and gather data through it for analysis.
Unlike NASA’s famous Apollo mission, ISRO will land the rover near the South Pole of the moon instead of its equatorial region.
If successful, it will be the first lunar mission globally to execute that.
