Isro is now in the midst of preparations for its next ambitious
mission, the Chandrayaan-3, and the first manned mission, the Gaganyaan.
India's historic lunar
mission Chandrayan-2 completed its first anniversary on Wednesday. With the
orbiter continuing to map the surface of the Moon, the Indian
Space Research Organisation (Isro) said in a statement: "Extensive
data has been acquired from Chandrayaan-2 payloads and parameters are being
derived for the presence of water-ice in the polar regions, X-ray based and
infrared spectroscopic mineral information and mid and high latitude presence
of Argon-40, a condensable gas on the moon."
While Isro in
September 2019 lost contact with its Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover, which
was to make a touchdown on the dark side of the Moon, the orbiter has a mission
life of seven years. Isro Chairman K Sivan said the Chandrayaan-2
mission achieved 98 per cent of its objectives. He said the orbiter was
doing well and performing scheduled science experiments.
What next for
Isro?
Isro is now in the
midst of preparations for its next ambitious mission, the Chandrayaan-3, and
its first manned mission, the Gaganyaan.
Chandrayaan-3
Scientists will
incorporate lessons learnt from the failure of the Chandryaan-2 into the third
mission with robust design and capacity enhancement for mission flexibility.
While the type of payloads the Chandrayaan-3 will carry remains unknown so far,
if is believed to retain all the main objectives of the Chandryaan-2 and
consist of payloads identical to those within the Vikram Lander and Pragyan
Rover.
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