LVM-3 | Chandrayaan-2
Indian Space Research OrganizationSatish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Chandrayaan-2
- Type
- Lunar Exploration
- Target orbit
- Lunar Orbit (LO)
Chandrayaan-2 is India's second mission to the Moon. It consists of an orbiter, lander and rover. After reaching the 100 km lunar orbit, the lander housing the rover will separate from the orbiter. After a controlled descent, the lander will perform a soft landing on the lunar surface at a specified site and deploy the rover. Six-wheeled rover weighs around 20 kg and will operate on solar power. It will move around the landing site, performing lunar surface chemical analysis and relaying data back to Earth through the orbiter. The lander will be collecting data on Moon-quakes, thermal properties of the lunar surface, the density and variation of lunar surface plasma. The orbiter will be mapping lunar surface. Altogether, Chandrayaan-2 mission will collect scientific information on lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, lunar exosphere and signatures of hydroxyl and water-ice.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III)
- Family
- GSLV
- Provider
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Type
- Government
- Country
- IND
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launch site
- Pad
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad
- Location
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Country
- IND
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 13.7199, 80.2304