ISRO to launch its 2nd Lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 by March next year

Indian Space Research Organisation will launch its second lunar mission Chandrayaan-II in the first quarter of next year. The space agency's second indigenous mission to the earth's satellite will be equipped with upgraded domestic space technology.

ISRO Chairman, Kiran Kumar told media that Chandrayaan-I had an impact probe, which crash landed on moon's surface, but Chandrayaan-II will have a controlled descent of a rover which will perform in-situ lunar surface observations for 14 Earth days and the data will be relayed back for further analysis.

CHANDRAYAAN-2 will have an orbiter that will go around the moon in circles of radius 100 kilometers. A lander will come out of it and make a soft landing on the chosen territory of the moon. Afterwards, a Rover will eject from it and move on wheels on the lunar surface. The Rover will have many advanced payloads that will gather valuable data by analysing the lunar surface. The data will be collected from the Rover by the orbiter, which will relay them to the ISRO's facilities. The orbiter, the Lander and the Rover, all three have been developed by India. It is set to give further fillip to India's more extra planetary missions in future.