Chandrayaan-2 Explained: What Moon can hold for India | Explained News, The Indian Express

Chandrayaan-2 Explained: What Moon can hold for India | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Amitabh Sinha |Pune |Updated: June 14, 2019 10:18:35 am

Chandrayaan-2 Explained: What Moon can hold for India

ISRO has announced a series of plans include a space station, human space flight, and the Moon landing mission next month. What will Chandrayaan-2 seek to achieve that Chandrayaan-1 could not?

Chandrayaan-2 will make a landing at a site where no earlier mission has gone, near the South pole of the moon.

A day after it announced the launch date for the Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday it intended to build a permanent station in space in the next five to seven years. It seems to be a logical step forward, after the exploratory missions to the Moon (Chandrayaan -1) and Mars (Mangalyaan), the upcoming Lander and Rover mission to Moon (Chandrayaan-2), the declared human space flight before 2022 (Gaganyaan), and a possible, still undeclared, human mission to the Moon sometime later.