Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft completes 9,000 orbits around moon
Sakshi Education
Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft of India has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon. Imaging and other scientific instruments on the aircraft have been providing excellent useful data since then.
According to Chairman of ISRO, K Sivan, Chandrayaan-2 comprises of eight payloads and are conducting remote sensing and in-situ observations of the Moon at 100 km altitude from the lunar surface.
On the occasion, K Sivan also released data product and science documents besides the data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads.
Science data are being made available to academia and institutes in order to analyse them. It will also help in bringing more science from Chandrayaan-2 mission.
Published date : 08 Sep 2021 04:55PM