The Week India – July 21, 2019

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SOURCE ISRO

49.13m

LV

III

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

communication be ee e ea a d e a de

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

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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

24 THE WEEK • JULY 21, 2019

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CHANDRAYAAN-2