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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the project director of the ISRO’s mission, Chandrayaan-2?
A
K.Sivan
B
Muthayya Vanitha
C
Ritu Karidhal
D
Ramnanda Das
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vanitha, Project Director of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, are planning to hold a felicitation function here sometime this year to honour her.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mylswamy Annadurai – Project Director, Chandrayan-1.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indian Space & Research Organisation (Isro) chairman K Sivan said that the spacecraft has completed 9,000 revolutions of the Moon and onboard instruments are functioning nominally.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ritu Karidhal is commonly named as the “Rocket Woman” of India. She was also the deputy operations directions for the Mangalyaan project in 2013-2014. She was working very closely with Muthayya Vanitha all throughout the Chandrayaan 2 Mission.

Detailed explanation-5: -On August 20, 2019, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into lunar orbit. While orbiting the moon in a 100 km lunar polar orbit, on September 02, 2019, Vikram Lander was separated from the Orbiter in preparation for landing.

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