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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Chandrayaan-2 is India’s second mission to the Moon. It comprises a fully indigenous orbiter, lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan). The rover Pragyan is housed inside Vikram lander.

Veteran actor William Shatner, famously known as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, recently sparked an unexpected buzz online—not over space adventures across galaxies, but about the Moon much ...

Chandrayaan 2's long-term observations aim to discern how the water content in the lunar soil changes in response to the lunar environment, i.e., what the lunar water cycle looks like.

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.