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[22] [26] With new mission timeline for Chandrayaan-2 and an opportunity for a Mars mission arising with launch window in 2013, unused Chandrayaan-2 orbiter hardware was repurposed to be used for the Mars Orbiter Mission. [27] Chandrayaan-2 launch had been scheduled for March 2018 initially, but was first delayed to April and then to October ...
This is a list of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) missions. ISRO has carried out 125 spacecraft missions, 92 launch missions [1] and planned several missions including [2] the Gaganyaan (crewed/robotic) and Interplanetary mission such as Lunar Polar Exploration Mission, Chandrayaan-4, Shukrayaan and Mangalyaan-2 (Mars Lander Mission).
Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 being hoisted. During a landing test in February 2019, the lander suffered minor injuries in two of its legs due to a faulty orientation for the test, and the launch was then targeted for the second quarter of the year. [35] Final cost for the Chandrayaan-2 project was around ₹ 800 crore (US$92 million).
The Chandrayaan-2 mission launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two years before it captured images of the 1969 lunar landers.
The rover was launched as part of Chandrayaan-2 on 22 July 2019 and was destroyed with its lander, Vikram, when it crashed on the Moon on 6 September 2019. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] In July 2023, Chandrayaan-3 launched, carrying new versions of Vikram and Pragyan , [ 8 ] which successfully landed near the lunar south pole on 23 August 2023.
The mission’s lander is expected to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole at about 6.04pm local time (12.34pm GMT/UTC). Click here to see the Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission livestream event.
India's 1st Moon Mission, Chandrayaan-1 was launched from this launch pad on 22 October 2008. Its follow-up missions were also launched from this launch pad, where Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July 2019 and Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023. In November 2019, ISRO released tenders for augmentation of the SLP for the Gaganyaan project.
A previous mission in 2019, Chandrayaan-2, successfully deployed an orbiter but its lander crashed. The moon's rugged south pole is coveted because of its water ice, or frozen water, which could ...