Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft completes over 9,000 orbits around moon: ISRO

‘Chandrayaan-2 incorporated many new features in its instruments which are taking observations carried out on Chandrayaan-1 to newer, higher level’

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BENGALURU: India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has completed more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon, and imaging and scientific instruments onboard have been providing excellent data, officials said on Monday.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is holding a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021, which began on Monday, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

In his inaugural address, ISRO Chairman, K Sivan said the eight payloads onboard the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft conducting remote sensing and in-situ observations of the Moon at around 100 km altitude from the lunar surface.