Chandrayaan-2 launch highlights | Fusion - WeRIndia

India’s most awaited rocket Chandrayaan-2 has been launched successfully yesterday at 2:43 p.m. as planned by ISRO. Though the launch was not successful on July 15, yesterday, the rocket has launched as planned.

Here are the highlights of the Chandrayaan-2 launch:

• It is the most ambitious mission of India.
• The Bahubali rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) lifted off the 3,850 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.
• It has been launched from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Sriharikota.
• It will land on the moon between 6 and 8 September.
• The launch of Chandrayaan-2 was successful 11 years after it was approved by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2008.
• The scientific experiment will be carried on moon in one lunar day, i.e. 14 earth days.
• The orbital experiment will be operational for one year.
• Chandrayaan-2 is the successor of Chandrayaan-1 that was successfully launched in October 2008.
• GSLV Mk-III is the heaviest rocket that was built by India.
• The aim of Chandrayaan-2 is to discover a previously unexplored area on the lunar south pole.
• Chandrayaan-1, the first lunar mission to the moon by India confirmed the presence of water on the lunar surface.
• Hence, scientists suspect the presence of water in the form of ice and craters can reveal fossilized information about the early solar system.
• The mission that costs less than ₹1,000 crores will help the scientists study the existence of water on the lunar south pole.
• It was not explored by any other nation earlier and India will become the first nation to study it.
• ISRO scientists are attempting for its soft landing on the moon.
• If the mission is successful, i.e. after the successful soft landing of the rocket, India joins the elite space club with China, Russia and the United States.

Image credit: Image by WikiImages from Pixabay (Free for commercial use)

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/it/photos/lancio-del-razzo-fumo-razzo-decollo-67723/