chandrayaan 2 update

Why everyone is worried for the lander
chandrayaan 2 status

Now it is a 'do or die' situation for the lander(Vikram) because the future is not looking good, it's predictable to be worse because the time period of day and night are different there on Moon then that on the Earth. To break it down into simpler words, a day on the Moon lasts as long as 29.5 Earth days. In other words, if you were standing on the lunar surface it would take "29.5 days" for the Sun to move all the way across the sky and return back to its original position again. so the lander and rover have very limited days of time for them to explore because after that the night will start and it will be unimaginably cold which will affect the condition of the lander as well as the rover because both of them are not designed to bear the cold temperature of Moon.

so let's hope for the best and let's prepare ourself for further missions because this is not the end many great missions and success to come, good luck to ISRO "JAI HIND"


Updates as per ISRO on chandrayaan 2 information

• All the payload of the orbiter is powered.
• Initial trials for the orbiter payloads are completed successfully.
• Performance of all the orbiter payloads is satisfactory.
• The orbiter will continue to perform scheduled science experiments to complete satisfaction.
• A national-level committee consisting of academicians and ISRO experts are continually analyzing the cause of communication loss with the lander and trying the best.

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chandrayaan 2 status

Chandrayaan 2 Lander (Vikram) got found on Moon.

Yes, you heard it right the people at ISRO recently announced that the Vikram lander got found on the lunar surface by the orbiter itself and has clicked the thermal imaging of lander but the communication had to be established, people at ISRO are trying there best in achieving a conversation and will be successful soon. 

The Vikram lander went silent on Friday (Sept. 6) while attempting its first landing on the moon's south pole. ISRO lost contact with Vikram when the lander was just 2.1 km above the lunar surface. The Vikram lander is India's first moon lander and is carrying the country's first lunar rover Pragyan.

Officials at ISRO have not yet released the image of rover Vikram on the lunar surface or described the potential condition of the lander itself. But they have said that despite the lander's presumed failed moon landing, the craft has already demonstrated the key technologies for future missions. 


The Vikram Lander followed the planned descent flight path from its orbit of 35 km to just below 2 km above the surface, Officials at ISRO wrote in an update on Saturday (Sept. 7). "All the systems and sensors of the Lander performed excellently until this point and proven many new technologies.

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Chandrayaan 2 landing report

                     Chandrayaan 2 lander 

I expect that we all know about the ISRO Mission of Chandrayaan 2 and here to know about what has happened to the mission, although the mission didn't came out to be entirely successful, as a proud INDIAN i will say that it was a great start for our country to land on the lunar surface.

As per the reports of ISRO all we got to know that after the lander(Vikram) separated from the orbiter it was all going really well and as ISRO told all of us the clock for the most crucial 15 minutes had begun at that time, but after some minutes when the lander(Vikram) was about to touch the lunar surface and was about 2.1 km away the contact suddenly broke between the lander and the command center of ISRO (in Bengaluru, INDIA),  suddenly the entire team started to know the reason behind the break of contact between them but couldn't know the reason, but we can't even say that the lander has been crashed there are still chance that we will get the connection back and our scientists are trying to do there best in doing so and finding other ways.

But we can't say that the whole mission got waste but we still have the orbiter roaming around the moon which will give a lot of information to us and help us to know more about the lunar surface and to map the lunar surface which will be very helpful in the future missions of ISRO and world, and will also tell us information about the availability of water on moon which is our first concern.

when the PM got to the command center of ISRO the chief officer of ISRO Mr.Kailasavadivoo Sivan broke down into tears and PM Modi hugged him, as our prime minister said this is not the end this is a great achievement for INDIA.

The orbiter contains:

• Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer from ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore.
• Solar X-ray Monitor from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad for mapping major elements present on the lunar surface.
• Dual Frequency L and S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar from Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad for probing the first few tens of meters of the lunar surface for the presence of different constituents, including water ice. SAR is expected to provide further evidence confirming the presence of water ice below the shadowed regions of the lunar surface.
• Imaging IR Spectrometer from Space Applications Centre(SAC), Ahmedabad for mapping of lunar surface over a wide wavelength range for the study of minerals, water molecules, and hydroxyl present.
• Chandrayaan-2 Atmospheric Compositional Explorer 2 (ChACE-2) Quadrupole Mass Analyzer from Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), Thiruvananthapuram to carry out a detailed study of the lunar exosphere.
• Terrain Mapping Camera-2 (TMC-2) from Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad for preparing a three-dimensional map essential for studying the lunar mineralogy and geology
• Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive Ionosphere and Atmosphere – Dual Frequency Radio Science experiment (RAMBHA-DFRS) by SPL.
• Orbiter High-Resolution Camera by SAC for scouting a hazard-free spot for landing. Imagery from OHRC will help in preparing the digital elevation models of the lunar surface.

This is also a big achievement for ISRO as well as INDIA.

As our prime minister said that if in future any poet will write on the chandrayaan 2 mission he would say something like 'The love between the lander and the moon was so strong that the lander couldn't resist to hug the moon and rushed toward the lunar surface' because as we consider moon as a symbol of love.

Now INDIA is looking forward to launching a rover and an orbiter to Mars.

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