RUIMTEVAART
India plant tweede missie naar de Maan
July 15, 2019 -
India's ruimtevaartuig Chandrayaan-2 moet een verkenner – formaat
aktentas – op de maan zetten, 600 km van de Zuidpool, terwijl een satelliet zoekt naar water, van vitaal belang voor toekomstige bemande missies.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's space agency plans to launch a spacecraft in the early hours of July 15 local time (July 14 European/U.S. time), in the hopes of landing a rover vehicle on the moon. If successful, India will be the fourth nation to soft land on the lunar surface – after the U.S. former Soviet Union and China.
The Chandrayaan-2 will be the country's second lunar mission, after the previously successful Chandrayaan-1 orbited our nearest celestial neighbour in 2008.
This mission will focus on the lunar surface – gathering data on water, minerals and rock formations.
If all goes to plan, a lander and rover (with a two-week lifespan) will touch down near the lunar south pole in September, the first to ever do so in that region.
- Chandrayaan-2: India unveils spacecraft for second Moon mission (BBC)
- Chandrayaan-2 (ISRO)
- India plans tricky and unprecedented landing near Moon’s south pole (Science)
- India’s Chandrayaan-2 has more power than NASA’s Apollo missions, but cheaper (Futurism)
- Jul 14, 2019: India launches Chandrayaan-2 on lunar inventory mission (NewsAhead)