ISRO releases first set of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter data

Updated : Dec 25, 2020 10:03
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has released the first set of data from the eight instruments aboard India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2. The orbiter, which has completed sixteen months around the moon in lunar orbit, was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20. On completion of one year of the orbiter being in space, Isro had said that the spacecraft was ‘healthy’ and there was adequate onboard fuel to remain operational for about seven years. Chandrayaan-2, described as the most complex mission ever undertaken by Isro, cost less than half the budget of Hollywood blockbuster ‘Avengers Endgame’. The mission made India the fourth nation after the United States, Russia and China to land a spacecraft on the Moon.

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