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Chandrayaan II to go solo by 2017
In Chandrayaan Mission I, Indian Space Research Operational (ISRO) was able to make the important discovery of water on earth’s sole satellite.
Opting to the go solo in its ambitious Chandrayaan II project, India has decided not to take the Russia on the board and keep the mission completely indigenous with “minor” help from United State.
The ISRO Chairman A.S. kiran Kumar said that Chandrayaan II, having an indigenously built Lander & Rover, will be launched in the December 2017 or 1st half of 2018.
Spacecraft will also have instruments that will collect the samples and send all the data back to earth. Chandrayaan, The country’s Lunar Exploration Programme, is an On-going series of outer space missions by the ISRO.
In its Chandrayaan Mission I, ISRO was able to make the important discovery of the water on the earth’s sole satellite. India has now jettisoned Russia in the Chandrayaan II project and would be ready upon an indigenous venture but with a bit of help from the United States.
In 2010, it was agreed that Russian Space Agency ROSCOSMOS would be responsible for the lunar Lander and ISRO for Orbiter and Rover as well as Launch by the GSLV.
Due to a shift in the programmatic alignment of the project, it was decided that the Lunar Lander development would be done by the ISRO and Chandrayaan-II will be a totally Indian mission. “There were issues with Russian Lander and they had said that”it would need some more testing on this major project. In the meantime, we decided to develop it in the our country,” said a senior Indian Space Research Operstion (ISRO) official. Although indigenous, ISRO will be taking help of NASA for the project. “You can’t track satellite from one location, because of that you need support from the other locations. With NASA the collaboration is restricted,” Kumar said.