ISRO issued updates on its orbiter and it seems that it is operating in fine conditions.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced today that India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2's Orbiter is performing 'science experiments to complete satisfaction.'
ISRO issued updates on its orbiter and it seems that it is operating in fine condition.
Here are the updates posted by the Chandrayaan-2 on the orbiter:
1. All Payloads of orbiter are powered.
2. Initial trials for orbiter Payloads are completed successfully.
3. Performance of all orbiter Payloads is satisfactory.
4. The orbiter continues to perform scheduled science experiments to complete satisfaction.
ISRO also announced that a 'national-level committee consisting of academicians and ISRO experts are analyzing the cause of communication loss with the lander'.
It has been 12 days since ISRO lost contact with the Vikram Lander when it was 2.1 km above the lunar surface, disrupting the organisation's mission to soft-land a rover on the south pole of the moon, a feat never achieved in space history.
A lunar orbiter operated by NASA, in its quest to help ISRO find Vikram lander, took pictures of the Chandrayaan-2 lander's landing site this week. However, the pictures were taken by Nasa in dim light and they are still trying to find out the exact location of the lander.
The Vikram Lander was supposed to land on the moon and roll out the rover 'Pragyan', but the scientists failed to establish a connection with the Vikram Lander in the last moment.
India created history on July 22 when ISRO launched the country’s second lunar mission. Chandrayaan 2 seeks to explore the far side of the moon, a feat no other country has achieved yet. If this landing is successful, the 10-billion-rupee mission will allow scientists to carry out studies regarding the presence of water at the moon’s south pole.
The Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission, if completed successfully, would have made India the fourth country in the world to land a rover on the moon. It also would have been the only country to land a rover on the south pole region of the moon.
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