The Spacecraft initial launch was scheduled for March 2018 but was delayed to conduct tests on the vehicle. It was finally scheduled for 14th July 2019.
The launch was aborted due to technical glitch and rescheduled on 22nd July at 2:43 PM IST.
The Objective of the Chandrayaan-2 is to Demonstrate the soft landing and operating a rover on the moon surface and to study the Lunar Topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, the lunar exosphere.
Whereas the orbiter goal is to map the lunar surface and prepare the 3d map of it.
Vikram(lander) separated from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter on 2nd September 2019 at 1:15 PM IST.and the orbiter continues to orbit the moon in its existing orbit.
The lander Vikram was to undergo two deorbit maneuvers to prepare for the soft landing and were achieved on September 3rd and 4th.
After these maneuvers, the powered descent phase was to be done on September 7th.
The first maneuver Vikram will perform will be to slow it’s speed down significantly.
Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram has begun its descent towards the lunar surface.
The first maneuver Vikram will perform will be to slow it’s speed down significantly.
Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram has begun its descent towards the lunar surface.
Now, Vikram was performing the ‘Rough Breaking’ a powered descent to significantly lower it’s speed as it begins its descent on to the lunar surface.
The Lander was 4km away from the landing site.
Rough breaking was successfully accomplished and 'Soft Breaking' initiated.
There was a delay in the Chandrayaan-2’s landing on the moon.
ISRO was still waiting to receive a signal from lander Vikram that it has landed on the lunar surface.
There was no signal from the Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram.
The landing procedure was supposed to take 15min but it’s been 30 min since the descendant but no information from the lander.
ISRO confirms the connection lost.
The Indian Space Research Organisation chief K Sivan has confirmed that the contact with Chandayaan-2’s lander has been lost. The Isro chief said that the lander Vikram was descending on to the lunar surface as planned and that until 2.1 kilometers above the lunar surface, its performance was normal. But them, "lander to the ground station was lost," Sivan said. "Data is being analyzed."
"Space is hard.We commend ISRO's attemp to land their Chandrayaan-2 on the moon's south pole.You have inspired us with your journey and look forward to future opportunities to explore our solar system together"-NASA via twitter
