After India's moon mission Chandrayaan 2 landed on the lunar orbit of the Moon on Tuesday, ISRO is eye the soft land before the scheduled date of September 7. Chandrayaan 2 is India's mission to the moon.  It aims at the soft landing in the South Pole of the Moon. ISRO chairman K Sivan addressed the media after it was inserted in the moon orbiter. 

On Tuesday, K Sivan told reporters: "Out of 10.5cm/sec, if there's a one-second blunder in the mission, the spacecraft will miss the landing site by 7 degrees." He said that the next big day is September 2. On that day onwards, the eyes will be set on Lander Vikram. Lander Vikram is scheduled to make a soft land on Moon's south pole. 

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It is crucial that from September 2 the focus shifts to the Lander Vikram. K Sivan told that all engineers will first map the landing site. India is aiming to make a soft land. The chairman said: "A flat, plain ground without rocks or a steep incline is ideal, and the decision on which spot to land on will be made by the spacecraft in an autonomous 15-minute landing sequence starting at 1.40 am IST on 7 September."

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Chandrayaan 2- next stop

The achievement that the country is now eyeing with Chandrayaan 2 is to soft-land on the Moon's south pole. The ISRO said that Lander Vikram will soft-land on Moon on September 7, 2019. As the Chandrayaan 2 landing date nears, the country is looking forward to registering itself in the elite group of countries. The ISRO also explained why it has chosen the South Pole for its landing. Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon’s surface. Subsequently, the lander will separate from the Orbiter and enters into a 100 km X 30 km orbit around the Moon. Then, it will perform a series of complex braking maneuvers to soft-land in the South polar region of the Moon on September 7, 2019. The health of the spacecraft is being continuously monitored from the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru with support from Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennas at Bylalu, near Bengaluru.

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Chandrayaan 2 lesson from the past:

ISRO chairman said that it has taken past failures into consideration. "We're learning from past failures, and adding more and more valuable input. In the years since some of the earliest missions. From Israel's Beresheet landing, we learnt that the landing needs to be largely, if not completely, autonomous (i.e. controlled by the spacecraft without live input from ISRO engineers)," ISRO chairman said. 

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What comprises Chandrayaan 2?

The Chandrayaan 2 comprises of - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) 'Bahubali' rocket and the Lunar module (orbiter, Lander 'Vikram' and rover 'Pragyan').

• Bahubali - The 640-tonne GSLV Mk-III rocket stands 43 meters tall and has three stages for initial thrust, core booster, and cryogenic engine.
• Lunar orbiter - The orbiter with eight payloads weighing 2310 kg, will orbit the moon with a lunar orbit of 100 km
• Lander 'Vikram' - Named after India's space pioneer Vikram Sarabhai with four payloads, Vikram will land on the moon after separating from the orbiter and descend slowly up to 30km for a soft landing.
• Rover 'Pragyan'- The six-wheeled rover with two payloads, will roam on the moon's surface

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