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      ISRO Says Chandrayaan-2 Spacecraft Completes Over 9,000 Orbits Around Moon

      India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has now complete more than 9,000 orbits around the Moon, and imaging and scientific instruments on board have been providing excellent data.

      Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is organise a two-day Lunar Science Workshop 2021 which will began 6th September 2021 to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

      ISRO Chairman, K Sivan said the eight payloads on board the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft are conducting remote sensing and in-situ observations of the Moon at around 100 km altitude from the lunar surface.

      According to the ISRO the data product and science documents were release by Sivan, along with data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads.

      Sivan said he has reviewed the science results, and found them to be “very much encouraging”.

      Chairman of Apex Science Board, ISRO, A S Kiran Kumar said the imaging and scientific instruments on board the Chandrayaan-2 satellite have been providing excellent data.

      Project Director of Chandrayaan-2, Vanitha M, said all the sub-systems of the orbiter were performing well.

      Vanitha said the imaging payloads of the orbiter – TMC-2 (Terrain Mapping Camera-2), IIRS (Imaging IR Spectrometer), and OHRC (Orbiter High Resolution Camera) have sent us breath-taking pictures of the Moon.

      The two-day workshop, organised by ISRO, is being live-stream on the space agency’s website and Facebook page.

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      The science results from the eight payloads are being presents by the scientists in the workshop being held virtually.

      Also there will be lectures on the Chandrayaan-2 mission, tracking, operations, and data archival aspects.

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