First mission in human history: Isro plans landing near moon’s south pole with Chandrayaan

[boxer_B]

MUMBAI: With the much-awaited Chandrayaan-2 mission, India's second flight to the moon, Isro is attempting to pull off a daredevil manoeuvre. It will be the first-ever mission to soft land near the moon's south pole, which poses a number of challenges.

"We have identified two locations and will be choosing one. No other moon mission has landed in this area," said former Isro chief AS Kiran Kumar on Saturday, who retired as Isro chairman last month.

In preparation for this touchdown, landing simulations are currently on at Isro's Liquid Propulsion System Centre at Mahendra Giri in Tamil Nadu. The exercise involves a prototype of the lander simulating a soft landing from a height of 70-80 metres.

He said Chandrayaan-2's flight hardware was getting ready and the launch could take place either in the first quarter of 2018 or second half. He said Chandrayaan-2's flight hardware was getting ready and the launch could take place either in the first quarter of 2018 or second half. The rocket which will fly Chandrayaan-2 will be the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark II.

 

[boxer_B]

This seems like a hoax. High IQ Chinese would have been there. Infact, one of the comment in article says, "Xi Jinping "Every planet from Mercury to Plato and Sun are historically and traditionally Chinese territory, we will fight for every inch, if, any country will violate our sovereignty""

 

[Beast]

You mean the Indian moon landing is a hoax?

 

[itsanufy]

This seems like a hoax. High IQ Chinese would have been there. Infact, one of the comment in article says, "Xi Jinping "Every planet from Mercury to Plato and Sun are historically and traditionally Chinese territory, we will fight for every inch, if, any country will violate our sovereignty""

This seems like a hoax. High IQ Chinese would have been there. Infact, one of the comment in article says, "Xi Jinping "Every planet from Mercury to Plato and Sun are historically and traditionally Chinese territory, we will fight for every inch, if, any country will violate our sovereignty""

Unwanted, great Chinese trolling will start.

 

[Sugarcane]

What is soft landing?

 

[Anubis]

What is soft landing?

Broadly there are two types of landing...one is intentionally crashing a space craft on a surface...the other is landing it properly so you can use it on the surface...that's soft landing!

 

[Enigma_]

This is not going to go well.

 

[$@rJen]

This is not going to go well.

For a very long time when ever ISRO announce a mission this what comes out of Pakistanis.. so once the mission goes successful those very people won't login for a week hope you won't disappoint me

 

[Chaosmaster]

ISRO is doing wonders since last decade.....

 

[lonelyman]

MUMBAI: With the much-awaited Chandrayaan-2 mission, India's second flight to the moon, Isro is attempting to pull off a daredevil manoeuvre. It will be the first-ever mission to soft land near the moon's south pole, which poses a number of challenges.

"We have identified two locations and will be choosing one. No other moon mission has landed in this area," said former Isro chief AS Kiran Kumar on Saturday, who retired as Isro chairman last month.

In preparation for this touchdown, landing simulations are currently on at Isro's Liquid Propulsion System Centre at Mahendra Giri in Tamil Nadu. The exercise involves a prototype of the lander simulating a soft landing from a height of 70-80 metres.

He said Chandrayaan-2's flight hardware was getting ready and the launch could take place either in the first quarter of 2018 or second half. He said Chandrayaan-2's flight hardware was getting ready and the launch could take place either in the first quarter of 2018 or second half. The rocket which will fly Chandrayaan-2 will be the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark II.

2018?

2012 supa powa again?