{"id":76461,"date":"2019-06-17T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=76461"},"modified":"2019-06-17T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:43:36","slug":"chandrayaan-2-launch-date-declared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/chandrayaan-2-launch-date-declared\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan 2 launch date declared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: The date announced for the launch of India`s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is?<br> (a) 15th June, 2019<br> (b) 30th June, 2019<br> (c) 15th July, 2019<br> (d) 30th July, 2019<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 12th June, 2019, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan announced that Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second Moon mission will be launched on 15th July, 2019.<\/li><li>It will be launched by GSLV MkIII-M1 from Sriharikota. <\/li><li>The soft landing of the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 on the Moon\u2019s surface is likely to be on 6th September, 2019. <\/li><li>The most challenging task in the mission is of the soft landing on Moon`s surface. The soft-landing of lander on the Moon would be at a predetermined site.<\/li><li>Gaganyaan 2 includes a lander and a rover for the first time in an Indian space mission. <\/li><li>The spacecraft weighs 3.8 tonnes and consists of an orbiter, the Lander (Vikram) and the Rover (Pragyan).<\/li><li>The mission costs \u20b9603 crore for the spacecraft system and the launcher, a GSLV-MKIII costs \u20b9375 crore. <\/li><li>Tricolor will be painted on the lander and the rover while the wheels of rover will be imprinted with the Ashoka Chakra.<\/li><li>Different scientific experiments will be done by instruments on the lander and the rover.<\/li><li>GSLV MK-III will accommodate the orbiter and the lander as an integrated module. The rover would be kept inside the lander.<\/li><li>After the launch into an earth-bound orbit by GSLV MK-III, the integrated module would reach the Moon orbit using the orbiter propulsion module, and subsequently, the lander would separate from the orbiter and soft-land at the predetermined site, close to the lunar South Pole. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/12-jun-2019\/press-meet-briefing-dr-k-sivan-chairman-isro\">https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/12-jun-2019\/press-meet-briefing-dr-k-sivan-chairman-isro<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/chandrayaan-2-mission-launch-on-july-15-isro\/article27859704.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/chandrayaan-2-mission-launch-on-july-15-isro\/article27859704.ece<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/chandrayaan-2-to-be-launched-on-15-july-isro-1560332378540.html\">https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/chandrayaan-2-to-be-launched-on-15-july-isro-1560332378540.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The date announced for the launch of India`s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is? (a) 15th June, 2019 (b) 30th June, 2019 (c) 15th July, 2019 (d) 30th July, 2019 Answer: (c) Related facts: On 12th June, 2019, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan announced that Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second Moon mission will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":76462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-76461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}