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Chandrayaan-II to be launched in 2013

Published: Saturday, Oct 9, 2010, 23:00 IST
Place: Nagercoil | Agency: PTI

India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-II will be launched in 2013, its project head said today.

Chandraayan-II has been designed with new technologies for communication, project director, Chandrayaan-I and II of the Indian Space Research Organisation,Mylsaamy Annadurai told reporters at Chunkankadai near here.

Designing work of Chandraayan-II was done at a cost of Rs425 crore, he said.

Chandrayaan-II, also an unmanned mission, will land on the lunar surface and test the minerals present in moon and compare the result with the test data collected by Chandraayan-I, he added.

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