{"id":85280,"date":"2019-07-13T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2019-07-13T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:10:10","slug":"isros-lunar-touchdown-has-dry-run-on-soil-fetched-from-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-lunar-touchdown-has-dry-run-on-soil-fetched-from-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO\u2019s lunar touchdown has dry run on soil fetched from Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ISRO\u2019s Chandrayaan-2\u2019s lander and rover has been\ntested on a simulated surface at Lunar Terrain Test Facility (LTTF) in\nBengaluru.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second Moon mission, will\nbe launched on July 15, 2019<\/li><li>Chandrayaan 2 will comprise of an Orbiter,\nLander named \u2018Vikram\u2019 and Rover named \u2018Pragyan\u2019. The orbiter will circle the\nmoon and provide information about its surface.<\/li><li>The lander will carry a camera, a seismometer, a\nthermal instrument and a NASA-supplied laser retroreflector that will help\ncalculate the distance between the Earth and the moon<\/li><li>The lander will make a soft landing near the\nlunar South and send out the rover. The rover will be used mostly for in situ\nexperiments. Only Russia, USA and China have soft landed on moon so far.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2 will launch aboard a\nGeosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, (GSLV -MK III) rocket. The\nGSLV-Mk III is a three-stage heavy lift launch vehicle that has been designed\nto carry four-tonne class satellites into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2 is a follow-up mission from the\nChandrayaan-1 mission- India\u2019s first lunar mission. It was launched in October\n2008 and operated till August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an\nimpactor.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO\u2019s Chandrayaan-2\u2019s lander and rover has been tested on a simulated surface at Lunar Terrain Test Facility (LTTF) in Bengaluru. Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second Moon mission, will be launched on July 15, 2019 Chandrayaan 2 will comprise of an Orbiter, Lander named \u2018Vikram\u2019 and Rover named \u2018Pragyan\u2019. The orbiter will circle the moon and provide information&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-lunar-touchdown-has-dry-run-on-soil-fetched-from-tamil-nadu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO\u2019s lunar touchdown has dry run on soil fetched from Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2289],"class_list":["post-85280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-chandrayaan-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704821512},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85280","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=85280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}