If Chandrayaan-2 is successful, it adds to Indian's space legacy. Indian hardware has reached the Moon before, with Chandrayaan-1 orbiting the Moon in 2008.

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is designed to operate in a 100 by 100-kilometer lunar polar orbit for one year. Its eight payloads include a Terrain Mapping Camera, which will produce a 3D map for ...

The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft performed a 52-second maneuver at 8:51 a.m. EDT (1821 IST/1251 GMT), refining its orbit to a path that ranges from 74 to 79 miles (119-127 kilometers) above the lunar ...

India's indigenous moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is all set for launch today at 2:43 pm. The launch will take place at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district.

The Chandrayaan-2 instrument that gathered the measurements is called the Solar X-ray Monitor, which partners with an instrument called Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer, or CLASS.

The Chandrayaan-2 mission is just the latest demonstration of India’s rapidly maturing space program. Last year, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi announced that the ISRO would send the ...

Chandrayaan 2’s Vikram lander descended to a highland plain between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, at a latitude of 70.9 degrees south. But contact was lost in the final moments of the ...

Chandrayaan-2 employs a group of three spacecraft that will orbit, land on, and rove the lunar surface – the unnamed Orbiter, the Vikram lander, and the small Pragyan rover.

Veteran actor William Shatner, famously known as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, recently sparked an unexpected buzz ...

Chandrayaan-2 has revealed the presence of water in multiple locations on the moon, not just at the lunar poles, as observed by India’s first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1.

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV MkIII-M1, successfully launched the 3,840 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft into an Earth orbit today (July 22, 2019). The spacecraft is now rev… ...