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Payload fairing
Vikram
Orbiter
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III will
carry Chandrayaan-2 to its designated orbit. This three-stage
vehicle is India's most powerful launcher to date, and is capable
of launching 4-ton class of satellites
LANDER (VIKRAM)
ORBITER
The lander is designed to execute India's first
soft landing on the lunar surface
Mass 1,471kg
Power 650W
Expected life: One lunar
day (14 earth days)
Chandrayaan-2 could become the
first successful mission to soft
land near the lunar south pole
MOON SHOT
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Landing skid
Solar
panel
The orbiter will ob
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Mass 2,
Power 1,
Expected life: On y
Terrain Mapping C
Chandrayaan-2 Large Area
Soft X-ray Spectrometer
Solar X-ray Monitor
Orbiter High Resolution
Camera
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Dual Frequency Synthetic
Aperture Radar
Chandrayaan-2 Atmospheric
Compositional Explorer-2
Dual Frequency Radio Science
Experiment
Payload
bserve the lunar surface and relay
etweentheearthandthelander
2,379kg
1 ,000W
ne year
Camera-2
argeArea
Imaging IR Spectrometer
DualFrequencySynthetic
The orbiter payload will
conduct remote-sensing
observations from a 100km
orbit from the moon
PAYLOAD
Radio Anatomy of Moon
Bound Hypersensitive
Ionosphere and Atmosphere
Chandra's Surface Thermo-
physical Experiment
Instrument for Lunar
Seismic Activity
The lander and rover payloads
will perform in situ
measurements near the
landing site
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CHANDRAYAAN-2