Chandrayaan was launched earlier now it is Chandrayaan-2
Chandra means Moon and Yaan means Vehicle.
The main aim of the mission is to land the spacecraft on the moon's surface.
There are no humans involved. The technology is in control.
In India's history this was the first time a technology without any humans involved was created.
The spacecraft will cover 3.84 lakh km from earth to moon.
Why do they want to land on the moon? What is their aim?
They want to find out the properties of the moon. It's land, soil, atmosphere
and whether the gases present more or less compared to earth,
Researching all this is their aim.
The project also wants to research look if there is the presence of life such as Aliens.
ISRO, which is the Indian Space Research Organization said that this mission is extremely important.
ISRO said that we all know about the history moon and the solar system.
We need to research about the origin of the moon. They are very curious to research and find more answers.
ISRO manufactured this project.
However compared to other projects it is extremely cheaper.
The total cost of the project was Rs. 978 crore. This was cheap.
Compared to this project, the expenses of hollywood movies is a lot more.
For example, the movie Avengers: Endgame which costed $350 million
and Avatar costed $470 million.
These are so expensive compared to our project.
The whole world was very interested to see India’s extremely cheap project.
Chandrayaan-2 was scheduled to be launched from SHAR which stands for Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh
at 2:51 am on 15th July.
Journalists from around the world and President Ram Nath Kovind were present for this.
However at the last minute the ISRO scientists announced that
due to technical difficulties in the spacecraft they have to postpone the launch.
They will make another anouncement regarding the date.
Recently on 18th July ISRO Tweeted that the launch will take place on Monday 22 July at 2:47 pm.
If India successfully completes this mission, it will be the fourth country to do this after US, Russia, and China.
Let's hope India becomes the fourth!