planetary · Operational
Chandrayaan-2
India's second lunar mission. The lander was lost on descent in 2019, but the orbiter remains healthy and continues science from a 100 km polar orbit.
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Chandrayaan-2 launched on 22 July 2019. The Vikram lander lost contact during its final descent on 7 September 2019, and surface operations with the Pragyan rover never began. The orbiter, however, reached its planned lunar orbit and has kept working well past its original one-year design life.
From a roughly 100 km circular polar orbit it continues remote sensing with eight instruments, including Dual Frequency SAR, the Imaging IR Spectrometer, and atmospheric sensors. Recent public releases include polar ice-related radar products and plasma observations tied to solar storms.
Chandrayaan-3 later completed the soft-landing objective. The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter remains an active lunar asset, and its data feeds into planning for later Indian and international Moon missions.