New Delhi: India is planning to launch the Chandrayaan-2, country`s second lunar exploration mission, in the next two to three years.
\nAccording to an ISRO spokesperson, the Chandrayaan-2 will have an orbiter, lander and a rover.<\/p>\n
ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan had said that the space agency will launch Chandrayaan-2 by 2016-17.<\/p>\n
\u201cISRO aims to demonstrate its capability to soft-land on the lunar surface with this mission,\u201d said the ISRO spokesperson.
\nThe spokesperson also said that Chandrayaan-2, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), would be launched by a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) powered by an indigenously developed cryogenic engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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