Good news from ISRO, Lander's record on the moon's surface is absolutely safe.
According to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the new mission will consist of an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The orbiter will perform mapping from an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles), while the lander will make a soft landing on the surface and send out the rover.A GSLV Mark III rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter, lander and rover stand ready to launch from India's the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.Chandrayaan-1 Rescued from Failure. The Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft, India's moon orbiting satellite was almost lost earlier this year, Indian Space Research Organization revealed, as the star tracking system overheated and malfunctioned. The system helps determine and maintain the spacecraft's orientation.
What happened: The Indian Space Research Organization launched Chandrayaan-2 on July 22; it reached the moon's orbit on August 20. ... The lander, named Vikram after the famed Indian astronomer and ISRO founder Vikram Sarabhai, began its descent to the moon on the morning of September 1, local time.A lander is built specifically to descend toward and come to rest on a planet or moon usually transporting something to the surface. A rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move and explore the surface of a planet or moon. Landers usually carry Rovers for space exploration. 784 views · View 3 Upvoters.Chandrayaan-1 was intended not only to be a demonstration of India's technology in space, but also was expected to return scientific information about the moon, according to NASA. Its major goal was to collect data about the moon's geology, mineralogy and topography.Chandrayaan-2 is a three-in-one mission comprising an orbiter, a lander named Vikram and a six-wheeled rover named Pragyaan. It was launched on 22 July, a week after its scheduled blast-off, which was halted due to a technical snag.
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