{"id":94039,"date":"2019-07-23T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch"},"modified":"2019-07-23T01:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T08:22:26","slug":"indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission lifts off a week after aborted launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-lifts-off-a-week-after-aborted-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take more than six weeks to travel about 238,600 miles (384,000km) to the moon. The four-tonne spacecraft has a lunar orbiter, a lander named Vikram after the founder of Isro, and a rover. The rover, named Pragyan, which means \u201cwisdom\u201d in Sanskrit, will spend two weeks traversing the moon\u2019s surface. The six-wheeled vehicle, which will be deployed in early September, will collect crucial information about the mineral and chemical composition of the lunar surface, and search for water.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It was, he added, a \u201cfully indigenous\u201d project, using Indian technology.<\/p>\n<p>Chandrayaan-2 aims to become the first mission to conduct a surface landing on the lunar south pole region, where it will collect crucial information about the moon\u2019s composition. It would be India\u2019s first surface landing on the moon \u2013 a feat previously achieved by only Russia, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jan\/03\/china-probe-change-4-land-far-side-moon-basin-crater\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\">and China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The $141m (\u00a3113m) mission is a \u201cdemonstration of the growing sophistication of India\u2019s space power\u201d, said Dr Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, head of the nuclear and space policy initiative at the Observer Research Foundation thinktank in Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will take more than six weeks to travel about 238,600 miles (384,000km) to the moon. The four-tonne spacecraft has a lunar orbiter, a lander named Vikram after the founder of Isro, and a rover. The rover, named Pragyan, which means \u201cwisdom\u201d in Sanskrit, will spend two weeks traversing the moon\u2019s surface. The six-wheeled vehicle, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}