India’s second lunar orbit Moon Mission, or Chandrayaan-2, successfully entered into the lunar Orbit Moon on Tuesday, confirmed the country’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
This is said to be the biggest milestone achieved by Chandrayaan-2 so far, reports Xinhua.
Launched on July 22, it’s lander named “Vikram” will attempt to make a soft-landing on the Lunar surface on Sept. 7. The lander has been named in honor of the father of the Indian space research program – Vikram Sarabhai.
Earlier this month, Chandrayaan-2 had sent the first set of pictures of the Earth.
India vies to become the fourth country, following the United States, Russia, and China, to land on the Moon.
The nearly 150 million U.S. dollars worth of Moon Mission aims at gathering data on water, minerals and rock formations on the lunar surface.
The orbital insertion was finished with an engine burn that commenced yesterday (Aug. 19) at 11:32 p.M. EDT (0332 GMT; 9:02 a.M. neighborhood time Aug. 20 in assignment control). The burn lasted 1,738 seconds, almost 29 minutes.
According to a declaration from the Indian Space Research Organisation, which runs the Chandrayaan-2 challenge, the process was successful and the venture is on track to set its lander down on the moon early subsequent month. The spacecraft released on July 22.
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