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• With a total mission mass of 3. 8 tonnes, the entire project is set to cost Rs 978 crore.
• Rs 603 crore for the spacecraft and Rs 375 crore for the GSLV Mk-III.
• Chandrayaan- 2 consists of an orbiter, a lander (Vikram), and a rover (Pragyan).
• Chandrayaan 2 will be India’s first interplanetary mission to be steered by two women, project director M Vanitha and mission director Ritu Karidhal. Basic Information For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

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Operator - Indian Space Research Organization Type of Mission - Lunar orbiter, Lander and Rover Duration of Mission - Orbiter: 1 year Lander: >15 Days Rover: >15 Days Launch Mass - Aprox. 3850 Kg Mass of Payload - Orbiter: approx 2,379 Kg Lander: approx. 1,471 Kg Rover: approx. 27 Kg Date of Launch - 22 nd July 2019. Rocket - GSLV Mk III Launch Site - Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota Mission Details….. For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

• Chandrayaan- 2 begin its journey to Moon on 22 July, 2019.
• The Lander-Orbiter pair will go into an initial elliptical ( 180 X 24000 km altitude) Earth orbit, followed by a trans- lunar injection.
• Both will go into an initial elliptical lunar orbit.
• After orbit insertion, the Lander and the Orbiter separate.
• The Orbiter evolves into a 100 km circular polar orbit and the Lander breaks from orbit and lands on the surface in the high latitude areas near the South Pole. Mission Details…..

• The landing window is likely to be between September 6 and 7 because that is the beginning of a lunar day and scientific experiments will be conducted during this period.
• It will be a long journey to the moon for the Chandrayaan- 2 spacecraft carrying a lander called Vikram and a rover known as Pragyan.
• The journey is quite a long one as the distance between the Earth and the moon is about 3. 844 lakh km. Mission Details….. For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

GSLV Mk-III Rocket Known as Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III Pic Credit: ISRO

GSLV Mk-III Specifications

Height: 43. 43 m Vehicle Diameter: 4. 0 m Heat Shield (Payload Fairing) Diameter: 5. 0 m Number of Stages: 3 Lift off Mass: 640 tonnes. GSLV Mk-III Rocket For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

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• Lander will send data to Orbiter.
• Then the Orbiter will send it to the ISRO centre. This whole process will take about 15 minutes.
• So, it can be said that information sent from Pragyan Robot will take about 15 minutes to reach the ISRO centre in India.
• Dimensions: 0. 9 × 0. 75 × 0. 85 m
• Power: 50 W
• Travel speed: 1 cm/sec. Rover For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

• One of the instruments on Pragyan is a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS).
• Coming from the Laboratory for Electro Optic Systems (LEOS) in Bengaluru, LIBS' main objective is to identify the elements that are present near the landing site.
• To do this, laser pulses are fired at various locations and the radiation from the decayed plasma is analyzed. Rover For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”

• Lander also known as Vikram.
• ISRO has named Lander after the founder of ISRO and the father of Indian Space Program Vikram Sarabhai.
• The five-legged lander will have three instruments onboard.
• They are the Radio Anatomy of Moon-Bound Hypersensitive Ionosphere and an Atmosphere Probe (Rambha) that will measure the density of the lunar sub surface and changes around it. Lander

• It’s named ‘Vikram’ to honour the late Dr Vikram Sarabhai, who was the former chairman of ISRO and is widely regarded as the ‘Father of the Indian Space Programme’.
• It has been developed to operate for 14 days or one Lunar day.
• During this time period, the Vikram Lander will be constantly communicating with the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) in Byalalu near Bengaluru. Lander For more updates kindly like and subscribe to the channel “Tech_Guru Swapnil Kaware”