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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday said it has released the first set of data from the countrys second mission to the Moon, the Chandrayaan-2, for the general public. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The Orbiter which was injected into a lunar orbit on September 2, 2019, carries eight experiments to address many open questions on lunar science. "All experiments have been performing well and the d...

All experiments carried by Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, India’s second moon mission, have gone well with "excellent capability to deliver on the pre-launch promises", said the country’s space agency on Monday. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 from Sriharikota. The Orbiter, which was injected into a lunar orbit on September 2 2019, carries 8 experiments to develop and demonstrate the key technologies for end-to-end lunar mission capability, including soft-landing and roving on the luna...

The public release data archived at the Indian Space Science Data Centre in Bylalu, near Bengaluru is prepared in the standard, globally followed Planetary Data System 4 (PDS4) format for public release, it added. The Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) is the nodal centre of a planetary data archive for the planetary missions of ISRO. The Chandrayaan-2 data is required to be in the Planetary Data System-4 (PDS4) standard, and is required to be peer-reviewed scientifically and technically ...