Mylswamy Annadurai, project director Chandrayaan-I and II of the Indian Space Research Organization stated Chandrayan-II, India’s follow-on lunar mission will take place in the first quarter of 2013 as per schedule.
After the success of Chandrayaan I, the second lunar mission, Chandrayaan II which is a four-year project under Indo-Russian collaboration, is being executed by ISRO.
Mylswamy Annadurai, project director said, the designs for the mission’s rover and orbiter had been nailed down and the fabrication would commence shortly.
Like its predecessor, Chandrayaan I, Chandrayaan II is also an unmanned mission. But there is a difference. That this mission will land a rover on the lunar surface that will transmit data to an orbiter. It will land on the lunar surface and make chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the moon to confirm Chandrayaan-I’s findings.
Chandrayaan-II will have fewer instruments as compared to 11 payloads that Chandrayaan 1 had carried out, Annadurai said. It will also inspect the presence of water.
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