TopicChandrayaan-2

Topic: Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 completes over 9,000 orbits around moon since launch in 2019, ISRO says

PTI - 6 September, 2021

As the spacecraft completed two years around the lunar orbit, ISRO released data product, documents & data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads for analysis by academia and institutes.

Unique exoplanets, moonquakes, underground lakes on Mars — the big space stories of 2019

Sandhya Ramesh - 28 December, 2019

China’s historic moon landing, detection of First Radio Bursts from outer space & interstellar visitors were other big stories from the world of space.

Aided by Indian techie, NASA finds crashed Vikram lander on the Moon

Sandhya Ramesh - 3 December, 2019

NASA has acknowledged it was able to identify the impact site and debris of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander after a tip from Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian.

2 months on, govt confirms Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander made ‘hard landing’ on lunar surface

Mohana Basu - 21 November, 2019

Vikram hard landed within 500 m of the designated landing site, MoS in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh says in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

ISRO plans second attempt at soft landing on Moon for November 2020

PTI - 14 November, 2019

A senior ISRO official said the space agency was considering a Chandrayaan-3 mission and has tasked a committee with drawing up a report for the same by year end.

Discovery of water on moon: What India’s first Chandrayaan mission achieved a decade ago

Sandhya Ramesh - 8 November, 2019

Inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008, Chandrayaan-1 was instrumental in discovering water on the moon, and had a brief tiff with NASA over this.

ISRO releases first illuminated images of moon taken by Chandrayaan-2’s orbiter

Sandhya Ramesh - 18 October, 2019

ISRO has released details of data captured by two payloads — an infrared imager and a solar x-ray monitor.

ISRO not giving up on Vikram lander yet, efforts to reestablish communication still on

PTI - 1 October, 2019

ISRO had suspended search operations 10 days ago when the lunar night began. The space agency lost contact seconds before Vikram Lander was scheduled to land on the moon.