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17 Nov 2021

How India’s Chandrayaan-2 avoided collision with NASA’s LRO- Explained

The Chandrayaan-2 Lunar Orbiter recently performed a Collision avoidance manoeuvre The exercise was to mitigate the risk of passing very close to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

06 Sep 2021

Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft completes over 9,000 orbits around moon: ISRO

ISRO Chairman, K Sivan said the eight payloads on board the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft are conducting remote sensing and in-situ observations of the Moon at around 100 km altitude from the lunar surface. The science data are being made available for analysis by academia and institutes, for a greater participation to bring out more science from Chandrayaan-2 mission.

24 Dec 2020

Chandrayaan-2 mission's initial data released: ISRO

The ISRO has said it has released the first set of data from the Chandrayaan-2. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

20 Aug 2020

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter completes 4400 orbits around moon

Marking a year of the Chandrayaan-2 integrated module having been inserted into lunar orbit, the ISRO has released its initial set of technical and mission data. It goes on to state that, though the soft-landing was unsuccessful, the orbiter had completed 4400 orbits around the moon. While the orbiter was meant to stay operational for one year, ISRO says that it has enough fuel for remaining in orbit for seven years.

20 Aug 2020

Chandrayaan-2 completes a year on moon orbit, all instruments performing well

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said that the Chandrayaan-2 completed one year on the Moon orbit. Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20, 2019. It was on July 22, 2019, the GSLV rocket, nicknamed `Bahubali`, blasted off from the second launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

15 Aug 2020

Chandrayaan-2 captures image of crater on Moon; ISRO names it after Sarabhai

The Sarabhai Crater is around 250 to 300 kilometres east of the crater where the Apollo 17 and Luna 21 Missions had landed.

01 Aug 2020

Pragyan rover intact on Moon's surface, says Chennai techie

Shanmuga also stated that it has rolled out a few metres from the skeleton of Vikram lander, whose payloads got disintegrated due to rough landing. He claimed that the debris he found was of Langmuir probe from the Vikram lander. While orbiting the moon in 100 km lunar polar orbit, Vikram Lander was separated from Orbiter on September 02, 2019, in preparation for landing and was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km before communication from the lander to ground stations was lost.

22 Jul 2020

1 year of Chandrayaan-2, India's 2nd moon mission to study south lunar surface

On this day in 2019, the GSLV rocket, nicknamed `Bahubali`, blasted off from the second launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The aim of the mission was to studying all the areas combining the exosphere, the surface as well as the sub-surface of the moon in a single mission.

21 Jul 2020

Chandrayaan-2 data to be released from October; all 8 payloads performing well

The ISRO on Tuesday asserted that the public release of science data from Chandrayaan-2 for global use will begin in October 2020. It added that all the eight payloads on Chandrayaan-2 are performing well. The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20, 2019.

29 Dec 2019

Jewelers in Jaipur make silver replica of Chandrayaan-2, dedicate it to ISRO

The Chandrayaan-2 model is not for sale, they say it has been made for gifting. They hope to send it to the ISRO headquarters with the help of PMO.

04 Dec 2019

Our own orbiter had located lander earlier: Sivan after NASA releases images

On its website, a statement was issued by the space agency on September 10, 2019, stating, "Vikram lander has been located by the orbiter of Chandrayaan-2, but no communication with it yet. All possible efforts are being made to establish communication with the lander."

03 Dec 2019

Meet Shanmuga Subramanian, the Chennai engineer who found Vikram Lander

The NASA has credited Subramanian, 33, with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram Lander find. The site was located by Subramanian, who on his own scoured the pictures taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Camera (LROC), NASA and Arizona State University (ASU) announced on Monday confirming the find.

03 Dec 2019

NASA finds Chandrayaan-2's Vikram Lander on moon's surface, releases images

The NASA posted images clicked by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera, showing the site`s changes on the Moon and the impact point before and after the spacecraft had made a hard-landing on the lunar surface. It also showed the impact spot of the lander and an associated debris field created by the crash with blue and green dots respectively.

21 Nov 2019

Why did Chandrayaan-2 mission fail? Asks TMC MP, Jitendra Singh hits back

It was unfair to call India's moon mission Chandrayaan-2 a failure, Minister of State for Space Department Jitendra Singh said on the fourth day of winter session of Parliament.'

21 Nov 2019

Unfair to call Chandrayaan-2 a failure: Government tells Rajya Sabha

"Chandrayaan-2 was a mission keenly watched by everyone, in fact every Indian. There might have been some amount of disappointments as expressed by Hon`ble member. It will be unfair to describe it as a failure," Minister of State for Space Department Jitendra Singh said in the Upper House.

14 Nov 2019

ISRO releases 3D images of crater on Moon`s surface captured by Chandrayaan-2

TMC-2 provides images (0.4μm to 0.85μm) at 5m spatial resolution & stereo triplets (fore, nadir and aft views) from a 100 km orbit for preparing Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the complete lunar surface.

17 Oct 2019

Chandrayaan-2's IIRS shows first illuminated image of Moon

The image covers part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere and a few prominent craters--Sommerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood--are also seen in the image.

17 Oct 2019

NASA doing 'rigorous' search for Vikram Lander with fresh lunar pictures

Vikram Lander lost contact with ISRO following its launch from Chandraayan-2 moon orbiter on September 6 and likely landed in an area around the moon's South Pole.

11 Oct 2019

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter observes solar flares, analyses Sun's X-ray emissions

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said that the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter detected a series of solar flares using Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) of Chandrayaan 2 and the US’ Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-15) between September 30 to October 1.

05 Oct 2019

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