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Perseverance, the biggest and the most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, made its landing at Jezero Crater.
ISRO's trusted polar satellite launch vehicle - PSLV-C50 - injected the satellite around 20 minutes after the lift-off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota.
As per the mandate of Gaganyaan, two uncrewed missions would be undertaken prior to the manned mission.
Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20.
Sivan stated this while answering questions from Malayala Manorama's child readers through its ‘Hi Kids' initiative. Though hundreds of children had sent their questions, Sivan answered the best questions selected by 'Hi Kids' editorial team.
As a part of its Moon landing mission Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had to prepare an artificial moon surface so that the Vikram lander and Pragyaan rover could be tested.
The launch was earlier tentatively scheduled at 17:43 hours on Thursday, subject to weather conditions, from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh also said it is wrong to term Chandrayaan-2 as a disappointment since it was India's maiden attempt to land on the lunar surface and no country could do so in its first attempt.
NASA has found India's Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander, which crashed on the surface of the Moon in September, the US space agency said on Tuesday, crediting a Chennai-based mechanical engineer for helping it trace the debris.
NASA released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact.