{"id":31228,"date":"2018-10-27T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31228"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:07:05","slug":"chandrayaan-ii-to-be-launched-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chandrayaan-ii-to-be-launched-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-II to be launched in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/chandrayaan-ii-to-be-launched-in-april\/article22779634.ece\"><b>Chandrayaan-II to be launched in April<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s second moon mission, Chandrayaan-II, which would land a rover on the lunar surface is expected to be launched in April this year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chandrayaan-I discovered water on the moon and this will mission will be \u00a0an extension of that.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Chandrayaan II:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chandrayaan-II would cost about Rs. 800 crore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It \u00a0has three components: an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orbiter, a lander and a moon rover.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The orbiter had a life of one year while the lander and the rover were designed to last a lunar day, which was 14 days, as they worked on solar power.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A location had been identified at the Moon\u2019s South Pole to drop the lander and rover.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan-II to be launched in April Context: India\u2019s second moon mission, Chandrayaan-II, which would land a rover on the lunar surface is expected to be launched in April this year. Chandrayaan-I discovered water on the moon and this will mission will be \u00a0an extension of that. About Chandrayaan II: Chandrayaan-II would cost about Rs. 800&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chandrayaan-ii-to-be-launched-in-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chandrayaan-II to be launched in April<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909271},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}