The country's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 has completed one year of lunar orbit on Thursday and all its equipment is working correctly. ISRO said on Thursday that Chandrayaan-2 has so much fuel that it can remain operational for seven more years. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July last year and it entered the lunar orbit on 20 August.

ISRO's reform objective is not privatization: Sivan

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K Sivan has said that ISRO is not going to be privatized. The improvements being made in the field of space will prove to be decisive for India in the times to come. In a webinar, he said that there are many confusions about ISRO, which he wants to clear. Improvement in this does not mean its privatization.

Recently, India established the Indian Space Promotion and Authorization Center to open up the space sector to private companies and monitor their activities. On this, Sivan said that with these reforms, ISRO will focus more on research, capacity expansion, and technology experiments rather than production in the coming days.

He said that India is engaged in achieving self-sufficiency. Private companies are participating in this. He said that ISRO is very excited about the Chandrayaan-2 mission. He has got some pictures from NASA, which shows that the lander Vikram, who was an accident during the soft landing, is still working. NASA's hopes have been boosted by NASA's photographs 10 months after the accident.