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    Chandrayaan-2 was India's first attempt to soft land on the lunar surface. The lander Vikram lost communication with mission control just 1.3 miles from touchdown. While the landing was unsuccessful, the orbiter remains in safe lunar orbit continuing its planned science mission. India plans to repeat the landing attempt with Chandrayaan-3, which could launch as early as November 2020 with an improved lander but no orbiter. The new mission aims to demonstrate landing capabilities for future collaborative lunar missions.

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    Chandrayaan-2 was India's first attempt to soft land on the lunar surface. The lander Vikram lost communication with mission control just 1.3 miles from touchdown. While the landing was unsuccessful, the orbiter remains in safe lunar orbit continuing its planned science mission. India plans to repeat the landing attempt with Chandrayaan-3, which could launch as early as November 2020 with an improved lander but no orbiter. The new mission aims to demonstrate landing capabilities for future collaborative lunar missions.

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    Chandrayaan-2 was India's first attempt to soft land on the lunar surface. The lander Vikram lost communication with mission control just 1.3 miles from touchdown. While the landing was unsuccessful, the orbiter remains in safe lunar orbit continuing its planned science mission. India plans to repeat the landing attempt with Chandrayaan-3, which could launch as early as November 2020 with an improved lander but no orbiter. The new mission aims to demonstrate landing capabilities for future collaborative lunar missions.

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    Chandrayaan-2 was India's first attempt to soft land on the lunar surface. The lander Vikram lost communication with mission control just 1.3 miles from touchdown. While the landing was unsuccessful, the orbiter remains in safe lunar orbit continuing its planned science mission. India plans to repeat the landing attempt with Chandrayaan-3, which could launch as early as November 2020 with an improved lander but no orbiter. The new mission aims to demonstrate landing capabilities for future collaborative lunar missions.

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    CHANDRAYAN-2

    By
    Selva Lakshmi
    Scientists Involved in the Mission

    Ritu Karidhal Muthayya Vanitha


    India’s first lunar lander falls silent
    just before touchdown
    • An Indian spacecraft’s unprecedented attempt to make a soft,
    controlled landing in the moon’s south polar region has ended in
    excruciating silence: Shortly before touchdown, the robotic lander
    Vikram—part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission —fell out of contact with
    mission control. The Indian Space Research Organization, India’s
    space agency, says that the spacecraft stopped communicating with
    Earth when it was within 1.3 miles of the lunar surface.
    • “The Vikram descent was as planned, and normal performance was
    observed, up to an altitude of 2.1 kilometers,” said Kailasavadivoo
    Sivan, ISRO’s chairman, in a statement roughly half an hour after
    signal loss. “The data is being analyzed.”
    67° 52′ 26.62″ S, 18° 28′ 10.09″ W
    Coordinates on the Moon
    (-67.87406°, -18.46947°)
    • In addition to setting a global first, a successful landing would have
    made India just the fourth country to touch down anywhere on the
    lunar surface, and only the third nation to operate a robotic rover
    there. Nevertheless, the Chandrayaan-2 mission’s orbiter remains
    safely in lunar orbit, with a year-long scientific mission ahead of it.
    •
    Mission repeat: Chandrayaan-3

    • In November 2019, ISRO officials stated that a new lunar lander mission is being studied for
    launch in November 2020; this new proposal is called Chandrayaan-3 and it would be a re-
    attempt to demonstrate the landing capabilities needed for the Lunar Polar Exploration
    Mission proposed in partnership with Japan for 2024. If funded, this re-attempt would not include
    launching an orbiter . The proposed configuration would have a detachable propulsion module, a
    lander and a rover. According to VSSC director, S. Somanath, there will be more follow up missions
    in the Chandrayaan programme.
    • According to The Times of India, work on Chandrayaan-3 commenced on November 14, 2019.
    • In December 2019 it was reported that ISRO requested the initial funding of the project,
    amounting to ₹75 crore (US$11 million), out of which ₹60 crore (US$8.4 million) will be for
    meeting expenditure towards machinery, equipment and other capital expenditure, while the
    remaining ₹15 crore (US$2.1 million) is sought under revenue expenditure head.
    • Confirming the existence of the project, ISRO's chairman K. Sivan stated that it’s cost would be
    around ₹615 crore (US$86 million).

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