ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar revealed the next big project of the National Space Agency. After the successful completion of Chandrayaan 1, the ISRO has started flight integration activity for its next lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and scientists are currently carrying out tests for the lander and the rover that will explore the moon. Officials said the spacecraft launch, on board GSLV-Mk II, is planned for March and many new technologies have been developed indigenously to achieve the mission requirements.
However, India’s next mission to Moon will be advanced from the first, which launched 9 years ago. Chandrayaan-2 will be a completely indigenous mission of India, unlike to first mission in which the impact probe crash-landed on the surface of the moon, the rover will soft land its landers on the lunar surface. The spacecraft is a composite model consisting of the orbiter, lander, and rover. ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar told that mission is progressing and expected to launch Chandrayaan-2 in the first quarter of 2018.
Officials said rover flight systems test include “soil mixing exercise” and mobility test to evaluate the rover’s wheel-soil interaction. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had also established a lunar terrain test facility for conducting lander leg drop tests.
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