Chandrayaan-2, one of India's largest space missions, was canceled for an indefinite period following a technical problem spotted an hour before takeoff.
The beginning of a beautiful story ... which will have to wait a few weeks. For mission Chandrayaan-2, conducted under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), has been a last-minute cancellation, blamed a technical problem spotted an hour before launch. Teams from the Sriharikota Space Center, located in Chennai (southeast India), have indeed halted the countdown to 56 minutes and 24 seconds of the takeoff originally planned 51 at 2 am local time.
A historic mission for India
" A technical problem was observed at the launch system one hour before takeoff. As a precaution, Chandrayaan2 was canceled today. The new launch date will be announced later, "the agency said on Twitter. Making India the fourth nation - after Russia, the United States and China - to put a machine on the moon is not for now, although the ISRO does indeed finalize this ambitious project by the end of the year.
A project with many objectives, among which the collection of information on the mineral composition of our satellite and the search for water are part, as noted by The Guardian. To do this, the second-most populous country in the world has planned a total of eleven scientific instruments, listed by Futura Sciences, the dispatcher on the orbiter, the lander and the lunar rover. On Earth, the GSLV-MkIII launcher will take care of propelling everything into space.
Reunion, ten years later
Ten years after the completion of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, India hopes to once again analyze Earth's natural satellite. Although it will be necessary to wait a few weeks with regard to this technical glitch.
The beginning of September was one of the objectives of the teams to put their very first space exploration vehicle: it is only part of the delivery.
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