Chandrayaan-2 Mission
7/22/2019
The meeting on October 24, 2019 included discussion of the status of Chandrayaan-2 and future international collaboration.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission has a budget of $150,000,000 and seeks to gather data on lunar water, minerals, seismic activity, composition, and thermal characteristics.
Chandrayaan-2 launched on 2019-07-22 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on a GSLV Mk III launch vehicle.
Chandrayaan-2 performed a collision avoidance maneuver on 2021-10-18 to avoid a predicted close approach to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter two days later.
The CE20 engine has operated at a thrust level of 19,000 kg in six successive LVM3 missions including Chandrayaan-2, Chandrayaan-3, and two OneWeb commercial missions.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission has implemented numerous precautions to prevent glitches that occurred in Chandrayaan-2.