Chandrayaan-2: India’s Second Lunar Exploration Mission

Abstract

Chandrayaan-2 was a great achievement for India and the mankind and it made a history as 1 st mission in the world which was projected on the southern pole of moon. This region always remains in darkness and temperature is extreme cold there and these two things are most dangerous and affect negatively on mission. Therefore it was very challenging mission for India and entire world was curious about its success. Its budget was 9.62 billion Indian rupees and it is the most expansive space mission of India till now. Chadrayaan-2 consisted of 3 parts; Orbiter, Lander and Rover. This mission was launched in 2019. In this mission, Orbiter was successful its mission to reach in moon's orbit but unfortunately communication was lost with Lander which causes Lander did not perform well and it crashed along Pragyan rover and other sciencetific equipments. This paper presents a detailed review about Mission Chandrayaan-2 and its landing failure.