By analyzing radio signals from India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which continues to operate efficiently and provide valuable ...

During this period, the moon is shielded from direct solar wind and was thought to have lower plasma densities due to free diffusion along Earth's magnetic field lines. However, the Chandrayaan-2 ...

One of its payloads, the Chandrayaan 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), used ‘flash photography’ to detect changes in particles as it passed through the Earth’s geotail.

Chandrayaan-2 makes surprising discovery about the Moon's ionosphere This discovery challenges previous assumptions about how plasma, electrically charged gas, behaves in the lunar environment and ...

Chandrayaan 2 hit a new milestone today when it successfully left Earth’s orbit to enter the Moon’s orbit. The completion of the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) — also dubbed ‘ lunar capture ...

The current trajectory of the Chandrayaan 2 takes advantage of Earth’s gravity, to help catapult the spacecraft towards the Moon. The reason for this choice was also driven by the fact that ...