Chandrayaan 2: Second moon mission postponed due to technical glitch

The launch was scheduled to have taken place at 2.51 am from the second launchpad at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre

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B-town extends wishes to ISRO for Chandrayaan-2

Ajay Devgn appreciated the 'power of woman' who worked behind the grand project.

 

"Chandrayaan-2, India's second space mission, a leap bigger than ever before. Kudos to invincible power of women directing it, first time in Indian history! Sending the best of my wishes to the team of scientists at isro," he tweeted.

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We are less than five hours from the historic launch of Chandrayaan 2: Isro

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A glimpse of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

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Here's everything you need to know about Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan 2 is an Indian lunar mission that will boldly go where no country has ever gone before -- the Moon's south polar region.

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Chandrayaan-2 has 13 payloads

he Chandrayaan-2 has 13 payloads in total with eight of them in the orbiter, three payloads in Vikram and two in Pragyan. Five payloads are from India, three from Europe, two from the US and one from Bulgaria.

 

A Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) of NASA is among the payloads and is aimed at understanding dynamics of Earth's Moon system and deriving clues on Lunar interior.

 

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How and where to watch Chandrayaan 2 launch live

The Chandrayaan-2 mission launch will be live streamed by Isro on its social media handles on Facebook and Twitter.

 

You can also watch the live streaming of the Chandrayaan-2 launch on DD National channel (Doordarshan), YouTube, and the at the official Isro website.

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Women make up 30% of Chandrayaan-2 workforce, two lead the mission

Among the many firsts for the Chandrayaan 2, this mission would be the first for the space agency to have two women leading it as project and mission directors, with two decades of experience in Isro.

 

Besides, nearly 30 per cent of the members working on the Chandrayaan-2 mission are women.

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In pictures: Preparation behind Chandrayaan 2

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Chandrayaan-2 will make India the fourth country to soft land on the lunar surface

Billed as the most complex and prestigious mission ever undertaken by the ISRO since its inception, Chandrayaan-2 will make India the fourth country to soft land on the lunar surface after Russia, the United States and China.

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IIT Kanpur developed algorithms for two sub-systems aboard Chandrayaan-2

IIT Kanpur has developed algorithms for two subsystems in Chadrayaan -2 -- Map Generation and Motion Planning.

 

An MoU was signed between ISRO and IIT Kanpur for two sub-systems -- Map Generation and Motion planning. This was basically for software and algorithm development, IIT Professor Ashish Dutta said.

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Had heard about Moon in grandma's stories, say kids after visiting ISRO station

For a brother-sister twin from Jammu, the Moon had always been about the stories they had heard from their grandmother: a friendly celestial body so far away that they could only imagine to reach there some day. Not anymore, they said.

 

Swapnil and Swapnila, both Class 10 students, this week visited the ISRO station in Andhra Pradesh and saw the massive rocket that will spark their lunar imagination into reality. There, they heard stories about the Moon again, but they would have surely missed the warmth of their grandma's storytelling.

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Chandrayaan 2 mission sequence

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Countdown for Chandrayaan-2 lift-off progressing smoothly

The 20-hour countdown for the July 15 early morning lift-off of India's heavy rocket nicknamed 'Bahubali' carrying the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is progressing smoothly, Indian space agency officials said.

 

"The countdown began at 6.51 a.m. on Sunday," K. Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told IANS.