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.

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.

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.

India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has finished one year and 4,400 trips around the moon — and the spacecraft is just getting started, Indian space agency officials said Thursday (Aug. 20 ...

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.

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 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.

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.

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.