Chandrayaan-2
| Launch Date | March 2018 |
| Launch Site | Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India |
| Destination | Earth's Moon |
| Type | Orbiter, Lander, Rover |
| Status | In Development |
| Nation | India |
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Goals
Demonstrate the ability to soft-land on the Moon and operate a robotic rover on the surface. Scientific goals include studies of lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, the lunar exosphere and signatures of water ice.
Accomplishments
This mission is in development.
Key Dates
March 2018: Launch
Spacecraft
Launch Vehicle: GSLV
Spacecraft Mass:
Orbiter: 3,087 pounds (1,400 kilograms)
Lander: 2,800 pounds (1,250 kilograms)
Rover: 64 pounds (20 kilograms)
Spacecraft Instruments:
Orbiter: visible camera, a mass spectrometer, a synthetic aperture radar, a near infrared spectrometer, a radio occultation experiment, an X-ray spectrometer and solar monitor.
Lander: camera, seismometer, thermal profiler, and Langmuir probe.
Rover: cameras, alpha-proton X-ray spectrometer, and a laser-induced ablation spectroscopy experiment.
Additional Resources
National Space Science Data Center Master Catalog: Chandrayaan-2
Selected References
Siddiqi, Asif A. Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000, NASA, 2002.
