Chandrayaan-2 to cost Rs. 426 crore
PTI
Chennai, April 09, 2011
First Published: 15:35 IST(9/4/2011)
Last Updated: 16:27 IST(9/4/2011)
ISRO will spend
Rs. 426 crore for the country's second unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, a senior scientist of the space agency said in Chennai on Saturday.
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This is an additional Rs. 40 crore from Rs. 386 crore spent earlier on the first mission, Project Director Mylswamy Annadurai told reporters in Chennai on the sidelines of a function.
Chandrayaan-2, which is expected to be launched in Sept 2013, is a lunar landing mission, while the earlier one (Chandrayaan-1) was only an orbiter, Annadurai said.
ISRO had terminated Chandrayaan-1 odyssey launched in October 2008 the following year on August 30 after it failed to re-establish contact, lost the previous day, with the lunar craft.
The second mission, which will have an orbiter, a lander and a rover, is planned to be launched onboard Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.