. India's Moon Mission ‘Chandrayaan-2’ launched from Sriharikota
Today, India's landmark mission to the moon ‘Chandrayaan-2’ has been launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.
Chandrayaan-2 onboard the heavy-lift rocket Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV-MkIII-M1 (nicknamed Baahubali).
In just 16 minutes into the sky, it ed the high-stake lunar probe into the designated highly elliptical orbit.
It will be the first soft-landing of a probe by India, that is expected to be on 7th September.
India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is an advanced version of the previous ‘Chandrayaan-1’ mission, which was launched about 10 years ago.
The total cost of the mission is worked out to be 978 crore rupees.
Chandrayaan-2 carried 13 scientific satellites (weighs about 3.8 tonnes), explore the southern part of the Moon.
Originally Chandrayaan-2 was planned to be launched on the 15thof this month.
However, a technical snag was detected less than an hour before its scheduled lift-off, forcing the mission to be halted.
The flight duration of Chandrayaan-2 from the earth to the moon has been reduced (due to the delay in the launch) from 54 days to 48 days by tweaking the flight path.
Know about ‘Chandrayaan-2’:
‘Chandrayaan-2’ would make India the 4th country to soft-land on the Moon, a feat achieved only by the space agencies of the US, USSR, and China.
It will have three modules — Orbiter, Lander (Vikram) & Rover (Pragyan).
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