CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft completes over 9, 000 orbits around moon: ISRO. The data from Chandrayaan-2 has been shared with academia and institutes for further research.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft of India has completed more than 9, 000 orbits around the Moon. Imaging and other scientific instruments on the aircraft have been providing excellent useful data since then.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lander and Rover modules were given the names Vikram and Pragyaan, respectively, by ISRO in honour of Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space programme.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chandrayaan-1 (chandrayaan is Hindi for “moon craft”) was the first lunar space probe of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and found water on the Moon. It mapped the Moon in infrared, visible, and X-ray light from lunar orbit and used reflected radiation to prospect for various elements, minerals, and ice.