07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan-2 approached the Moon as normal and completed the ... Minister Narendra Modi, who was at ISRO to watch the landing of Chandrayaan 2, consoled scientists of the mission saying that he was proud of a...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... family but Didi always yearned to go beyond the limits," Varsha recalled. Chandrayaan-2 consists of a an orbiter, a lander and a rover, most ...Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead...
06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... August 2009 and is best known for helping to discover evidence of water molecules on the moon. Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, will go a few steps further by aiming to study the Moon’s mineralogy, topography, exosphere and even possible seismic...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... orbit back to the radar team. "But otherwise, Chandrayaan-1's orbit still had the shape and alignment that we ...antennas at Goldstone and Green Bank, by working together to rediscover Chandrayaan-1 and hunt down LRO, researchers have shown that it is ...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
... land a spacecraft on the Moon. Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave no explanation for what it called a "technical snag" in the rocket...
18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
... a few failures too, such as repetitive losses of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle and an unfortunate ending to its Chandrayaan-2 lander, which lost contact with mission control shortly after plummeting to the lunar surface last year...
