CHANDRAYAAN 2 - What Happened and What's Next?
India came 0.0006 per cent close to becoming the first country to do a soft-landing on the lunar south pole.
Vikram -- named after the father of India's space programme (Vikram Sarabhai) -- went silent just 2.1 kilometres above the lunar surface
But all isn't bad. Chandrayaan-2 will circle and study the Moon remotely for a year, safely from the lunar orbit. A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there
Final phase of "terrifying 15 minute" landing process was going on well till the rough braking phase.
Vikram's descent was as planned and a "normal performance" was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently, communication from lander to the ground stations was lost.
what's next?
Chandrayaan 2 orbiter will try to establish contact with the lander and locate its landing site while in orbit.
The 2,379-kg orbiter carries eight scientific payloads for mapping the lunar surface and study the exosphere of the Moon. The lunar south pole is believed to have deposits of water ice, a resource invaluable for future human settlements on the moon.
Isro plans to send astronauts to space by 2022; an Orbiter mission to Mars between 2022 and 2023; another mission to Moon -- Chandrayaan-3 -- in late 2020s; Venus mission in 2023; Mission for Sun and will build a space station.
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