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Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing LIVE updates: Countdown to historic moment begins
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: The Vikram Lander is scheduled to begin its descent to the surface of the Moon at around 1.30 am on Saturday, September 07, 2019 at the speed of 6 km per second, or about 21,600 km per hour.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: Weeks after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Chandrayaan-2, India’s mission to the Moon, its lander module, Vikram, will attempt to make a soft landing on the south polar region of the lunar surface tonight. A region never explored before, the south holds immense potential to reveal new science as it is believed to hold a lot of water trapped as ice in deep craters.
The Vikram Lander is scheduled to begin its descent to the surface of the Moon at around 1.30 am on Saturday at the speed of 6 km per second, or about 21,600 km per hour. Within 15 minutes, it will reduce its speed to 2 metres per second (about 7 km/hr) or lower to enable a safe landing.
Around three hours after Vikram lands, a six-wheeled robotic vehicle called Pragyan will come out of the lander and crawl the surface of the Moon to collect data, which will be relayed back to ISRO. Vikram and Pragyan will be operational for 14 days, the duration of a lunar day.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: Vikram Lander will attempt to make a soft landing on the south polar region of the lunar surface.
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Chandrayaan-2 landing LIVE updates: Countdown for India's lunar mission; Vikram Lander to make soft landing of the surface of the Moon tonight.
Chandrayaan-2: Delayed, but better
Chandrayaan-2 was originally scheduled to be launched way back in 2011 itself, immediately after Chandrayaan-1 which was launched in 2008 and remained functional in its orbit till about a year later. At that time, however, it was to be a joint collaborative mission between India and Russia — ISRO was to provide the rocket and Orbiter, and the lander and rover modules were to come from Russia’s Roscosmos space agency. The current Chandrayaan-2 composite module is a far superior design, and incorporates several additional safety features that would have not been possible in the original design that was scheduled to be launched in 2011.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing: Here are key timings to keep in mind
Chandrayaan-2 mission is set to perform a soft-landing in the unexplored South Pole region of the Moon on September 7. It will make contact with the lunar surface between 1:30 am and 2:30 am on September 7, 2019, which is later tonight. The rover will roll out between 5:30 am and 6:30 am on the early morning of September 7. Read more here.
Chandrayaan-2 is 110th Moon mission, these are the previous lunar missions
Chandrayaan-2 is the 110th space mission to the Moon, and the 11th this decade. A bulk of the moon missions, 90 out of the 109 so far, were sent between 1958 and 1976. There was a complete lull in moon exploration after that. Here's a list of the different kinds of moon missions.
Everything going according to plan: ISRO chief says ahead of Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing
ISRO Chairman K Sivan tells news agency PTI that "everything is going according to the plan", adding that "we are eagerly waiting for the event". The Vikram Lander is scheduled to touchdown on the surface of the Moon after 1.30 am; the Pragyan rover will rollout around 5.30 am.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets that he has been "regularly and enthusiastically tracking" all updates relating to Chandrayaan-2 since its launch on July 22. He adds that Chandrayaan-2's success will benefit crores of Indians. The Prime Minister will watch the Moon landing at ISRO's headquarters in Bengaluru tonight, along with youngsters from different states and Bhutan.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing: Countdown to historic event
Welcome to our live blog on the Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing! With the countdown to the historic event underway, we bring you the latest news and updates on India's lunar mission. The Vikram Lander is scheduled to begin its descent to the surface of the Moon at around 1.30 am on Saturday and is likely to land after 2.30 am.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019. (File photo)
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates:
ISRO Chairman K Sivan has repeatedly been describing Friday's Moon landing as "the most terrifying 15 minutes” of its journey. If successful, this would be India’s first soft landing on the moon’s surface. Only the US, the former USSR and China have been successful in landing humans or machines on the moon.
Chandrayaan-2 is attempting to accomplish what no other country has done before — reach the Moon's south polar region. ISRO has chosen to land at the poles to improve its understanding of the Moon. It is believes that millions to billions of tonnes of water is present in the form of craters at the poles.
India's mission to look for water on the Moon stems from the discover of Chandrayaan-1, which found its presence in 2008.
ISRO hopes the presence of water will help reveal new science. "Chandrayaan 2 attempts to foster a new age of discovery, increase our understanding of space, stimulate the advancement of technology, promote global alliances, and inspire a future generation of explorers and scientists," ISRO said.
"Moon provides the best linkage to Earth’s early history. It offers an undisturbed historical record of the inner Solar system environment. Though there are a few mature models, the origin of Moon still needs further explanations. Extensive mapping of lunar surface to study variations in lunar surface composition is essential to trace back the origin and evolution of the Moon. Evidence for water molecules discovered by Chandrayaan-1, requires further studies on the extent of water molecule distribution on the surface, below the surface and in the tenuous lunar exosphere to address the origin of water on Moon," it added.
On the south pole, it said this region is interesting as it remains in the shadows and is much larger than the north. "There is a possibility of the presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it. In addition, South Pole region has craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System," ISRO said.
Chandrayaan-2: Delayed, but better
Chandrayaan-2 was originally scheduled to be launched way back in 2011 itself, immediately after Chandrayaan-1 which was launched in 2008 and remained functional in its orbit till about a year later. At that time, however, it was to be a joint collaborative mission between India and Russia — ISRO was to provide the rocket and Orbiter, and the lander and rover modules were to come from Russia’s Roscosmos space agency. The current Chandrayaan-2 composite module is a far superior design, and incorporates several additional safety features that would have not been possible in the original design that was scheduled to be launched in 2011.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing: Here are key timings to keep in mind
Chandrayaan-2 mission is set to perform a soft-landing in the unexplored South Pole region of the Moon on September 7. It will make contact with the lunar surface between 1:30 am and 2:30 am on September 7, 2019, which is later tonight. The rover will roll out between 5:30 am and 6:30 am on the early morning of September 7. Read more here.
Chandrayaan-2 is 110th Moon mission, these are the previous lunar missions
Chandrayaan-2 is the 110th space mission to the Moon, and the 11th this decade. A bulk of the moon missions, 90 out of the 109 so far, were sent between 1958 and 1976. There was a complete lull in moon exploration after that. Here's a list of the different kinds of moon missions.
Everything going according to plan: ISRO chief says ahead of Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing
ISRO Chairman K Sivan tells news agency PTI that "everything is going according to the plan", adding that "we are eagerly waiting for the event". The Vikram Lander is scheduled to touchdown on the surface of the Moon after 1.30 am; the Pragyan rover will rollout around 5.30 am.
PM Modi says 'regularly, enthusiastically tracking' Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets that he has been "regularly and enthusiastically tracking" all updates relating to Chandrayaan-2 since its launch on July 22. He adds that Chandrayaan-2's success will benefit crores of Indians. The Prime Minister will watch the Moon landing at ISRO's headquarters in Bengaluru tonight, along with youngsters from different states and Bhutan.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing: Countdown to historic event
Welcome to our live blog on the Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing! With the countdown to the historic event underway, we bring you the latest news and updates on India's lunar mission. The Vikram Lander is scheduled to begin its descent to the surface of the Moon at around 1.30 am on Saturday and is likely to land after 2.30 am.