The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning 2nd moon mission Chandrayaan-2 in 2013. Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) is joining with ISRO for development of Chandrayaan-2 Lander/Rover.
Chandrayaan-2 will consist of the spacecraft and a landing platform with the moon rover.The rover would move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do a chemical analysis and send the data to the spacecraft orbiting above.
Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft weighs about 2,650 kg at lift-off of which the orbiter weight is about 1,400 kg and lander weight is about 1,250 kg. Development of the subsystems of the orbiter and the rover is in progress at ISRO centres in Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram and Ahmedabad.
This time GSLV may launch Chandrayaan.ISRO Chairman Radhakrishanan said that he wanted to make GSLV a reliable launch vechicle.A committe was made to review all the launches of GSLV.The main critical part of GSLV ,Cryogenic engine will be prepared indigeniously.Before the launch of Chandrayaan ,There will be another launch of GSLV so that risk factor can be decreased.The payloads to be flown onboard Chandrayaan2 (orbiter and rover) have been finalised by a National committee of experts.Chandrayaan 2 is proposed to be launched on 2012.
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