ISRO saves Chandrayaan-2 from collision with Korean Lunar Orbiter: Report
November 15, 2024 17:27 ISTISRO reportedly saved the collision between its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) above the Moon.
ISRO reportedly saved the collision between its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) above the Moon.
According to ISRO, the resulting geomagnetic storm was the most intense since 2003, causing disruptions to communication and GPS systems.
ISRO, the world's sixth-largest space agency, has come a long way in exploring its capabilities and in reducing dependency on foreign launch services. Chandrayaan-3 to Aditya-L1 are a few of the many landmark space missions that India has undertaken.
DFSAR transmits and receives microwave in L and S band frequencies, works without solar illumination and is capable of pene trating the lunar surface down to a few metres.
India's space program is a major source of pride for the country, and it is seen as a symbol of its growing technological prowess.
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“Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter detected SPE due to an M5.5 class solar flare that occurred on January 20, 2022,” the ISRO said.
It is common for satellites in earth orbit to undergo collision avoidance manoeuvres to mitigate collision risk due to space objects including space debris and operational spacecraft.
The observations of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads have yielded discovery-class findings, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
The Chandrayaan-2 has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon, ISRO Chairman, K Sivan said.
Chandrayaan-2 data product and science documents were released by Sivan, also Secretary in the Department of Space (DoS), along with data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads, Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO said in a statement.
According to a research paper published in Current Science Journal, the spacecraft with the help of an Imaging infrared spectrometer (IIRS) could differentiate between hydroxyl and water molecules.
Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
As soon as the announcement was made, Indian Twitter celebrated the news with their hilarious memes.
India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 completed one year in orbit around the moon on Thursday and all instruments are currently performing well and there is adequate onboard fuel to keep it operational for about seven more years.
What if we tell you that the Chandrayaan-2 mission is still much alive? Well, hopes have revived again after a Chennai-based techie, in a tip-off to ISRO, said that Chandrayaan-2's rover Pragyan seems to be "intact" on the moon's surface and had rolled out a few meters from Vikram lander.
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