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Chandrayaan 2 vs Chandrayaan 1 : How ISRO’s two Moon missions are different Chandrayaan 2 latest updates: The countdown for the country’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan 2 to be launched off the Earth’s domain towards the Moon’s orbit has now begun! Enthusiastic masses are feeling high level of excitement and nervousness as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will lead the nation in taking a giant leap in space. However, this Moon mission is not just special because of its several first-time milestones but also because it holds many differences from the country’s premier lunar mission, Chandrayaan 1. Apart from having extremely different components, the two missions also set out to achieve separate results. Here are a few insights about the two moon missions which highlight their differences: Chandrayaan 1: ISRO’s very first lunar mission, Chandrayaan 1 was launched on October 22, 2008 which had orbited the moon more than 3,400 times and played an imperative ro...

Chandrayaan-2 to enter Moon orbit around 9.30am tomorrow NEW DELHI: Around 29 days after liftoff from Sriharikota on July 22,  Chandrayaan-2  is finally going to enter Moon’s orbit around 9.30am on Tuesday, which itself will be a milestone for Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) before the lunarcraft’s historic moonlanding on September 7.  Isro  chairman K Sivan told TOI, “Chandrayaan-2 is going to enter a crucial phase of lunar orbit insertion around 9.30am on Tuesday. On entering Moon’s sphere of influence, the onboard propulsion system of the craft will be fired to slow down the spacecraft to help it captured by Moon’s gravity.    We will thereafter conduct five manoeuvres to put the spacecraft around 100km x 100km lunar orbit.” The five manoeuvres will be conducted on August 20, 21, 28, 30 and September 1 to lower the altitude of Chandrayaan-2 to bring it closer to Moon’s surface. Explaining the lunar orbit insertion, former...