India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon, and the imaging and scientific instruments on board are providing excellent data, officials said on Monday. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is conducting a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021, which began on Monday to mark the completion of two years of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft’s orbit around lunar orbit.
In his inaugural address, ISRO Chairman, K Sivan said that the eight payloads aboard the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft are carrying out remote sensing and in-situ observations of the Moon at an altitude of about 100 km above the lunar surface.
“So far, Chandrayaan-2 has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon,” said Sivan, Secretary, Department of Space (DoS). According to Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO, the data products and science documents were released by Sivan. , with data from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payload.
“For greater participation to bring more science out of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, science data is being made available for analysis by academia and institutions,” ISRO said. Sivan said he reviewed the science results, and found them “very good”. very encouraging”.
AS Kiran Kumar, Chairman, Apex Science Board, ISRO said that the imaging and scientific instruments on the Chandrayaan-2 satellite are providing excellent data. Former ISRO Chairman Kiran Kumar said, “Chandrayaan-2 has indeed incorporated many new features in its instruments which are taking the observations made on Chandrayaan-1 to a new and higher level.”
Vanitha M, Project Director of Chandrayaan-2, said that all the sub-systems of the orbiter are performing well. “We hope that we can get good data from the spacecraft for many more years,” she said.
Vanitha said the orbiter’s imaging payloads – TMC-2 (Terrain Mapping Camera-2), IIRS (Imaging IR Spectrometer) and OHRC (Orbiter High Resolution Camera) have sent us breathtaking pictures of the Moon. The two-day workshop, organized by ISRO, is being live-streamed on the space agency’s website and Facebook page, to engage the scientific community to effectively reach out to students, academicians and institutions and analyze Chandrayaan-2 data. , said a statement from ISRO.
The science results of eight payloads are being presented by the scientists in the virtual workshop. In addition, there will be lectures on Chandrayaan-2 mission, tracking, operational and data archival aspects.
Lectures on lunar science will also be delivered by scientists from ISRO/DoS as well as scientists from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. where did it go.
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