The daring Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission

India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will attempt to land a briefcase-sized rover onto the Moon’s surface, 600km from the lunar south pole, while an orbiter above searches for water — vital to future manned missions

Payload faring
Lander Craft (LC)
Orbiter Craft (OC)

49.13m
STAGE 3
STAGE 2 
STAGE 1
Geosynchronous
Satellite Launch
Vehicle Mark II
(GSLV Mk II)

Mission cost: $150m

HISTORICAL LANDING SITES
N      Sea of Tranquillity
Equator
Luna 
Surveyor 
Apollo
S Chandrayaan-2 landing site

LANDER Equipped with seismometer to detect moon- quakes and Langmuir probe to measure plasma fluctuations

Solar panel and antenna
Solar panel
Landing skid
Door/ ramp
Navigation cameras


Launch site
New Delhi
INDIA
Bay of Bengal
Sriharikota

ROVER Will move around near landing site in semi-autonomous mode observing lunar surface and analysing soil


Sources: Science, Futurism, Spaceflight Insider, Planetary Society, ISRO, NASA

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