CHANDRAYAAN- INDIA’S ADVANVEMENT IN SPACE
TECHNOLOGY
The Indian Research Space Organization is undoubtedly one of the world's most technologically advanced space agencies. Even though its budget is just a fractionof what NASA gets, the space agency has proven that innovative technology can help you achieve the same objectives at a much lower cost. ISRO's Chandrayaan mission is one such example. Launched in October of 2008,
this is India's first mission to the moon. Moon provides the best linkage to Earth’searly history. It offers an undisturbed historical record of the inner solar system environment. The launch of Chandrayaan 1 marked the start of India's first-everlunar program. Chandrayaan 1 was launched on 22 October 2008 from SatishDhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. It used the indigenously developed Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL) rocket. Chandrayaan 1 was based on an
Indian meteorological satellite by the name of Kalpansat.The spacecraft successfully entered the lunar orbit on 8 November 2008 and just six days later, released its Moon Impact Probe. The Moon Impact Probe crashed near the Shackleton crater on the same day. The Impact Probe crashed in such a way that the subsurface lunar soil could be analysed for traces of ice.It carried a total of 11 payloads not only from ISRO but from various space agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency and the Bulgarian Aerospace Agency.
Chandrayaan 1 took numerous high-resolution images of the Moon's topography. It also performed mineralogical mapping and scoured the surface for any radioactive elements. One of the mission’s major achievements was the discovery of a large number of watermolecules present in the Moon's soil. The mission cost a mere $56 million andgave us crucial information about the Moon's surface.
Chandrayaan-2 is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover, all of which were developed in India.Chandrayaan-2 is an Indian lunar mission that will explore the moon's South Pole region. The lunar South Pole is interesting because of the lunar surface area which remains in shadow and is much larger than that at the North
Pole. The Moon’s South Pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system. It is unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has areas that are either constantly bathed in sunlight or in darkness. Each side of the Moon is dark for 14 earth days each month. The far side of the Moon has been explored by the United States, Russia, and China. 