Published 18:19 IST, August 20th 2019
Sand artist's 'magical' tribute to Chandrayaan 2 milestone
Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik congratulates ISRO on Chandrayaan 2's milestone of entering lunar orbit as planned.
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Sand artist from Odisha Sudarsan Pattnaik on Tuesday celebrated the milestone achieved by ISRO's moon mission Chandrayaan by entering the lunar orbit as planned by the space agency. The artist always makes sand art on various events and issues. On the occasion of India's moon mission's success, he created a beautiful tribute for Chandrayaan 2 congratulating ISRO.
There’s one thing we can’t measure here though — the hopes and dreams of millions of Indians riding on #Chandrayaan2! #ISRO #MoonMission pic.twitter.com/8LGFuf4Lfy
— ISRO (@isro) August 16, 2019
Netizens spoke reacted tweeting about his art
beautiful...👌
— Jyoti Raturi (@raturi_jyoti) August 20, 2019
Magician u r Mr Pattnaik.🤗👏👏
— Sudhiranjan Mishra😊 (@SudhirMishra_72) August 20, 2019
Congratulations, Proud on ISRO and proud on Modi Govt for their support to our scientist
— Amit Sharma (@Amit8575Amit) August 20, 2019
Chandrayaan 2 announces milestone
Announcing about the feat, the ISRO statement said: "Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) manoeuvre was completed successfully today (August 20, 2019) at 0902 hrs IST as planned, using the onboard propulsion system. The duration of manoeuvre was 1738 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into a Lunar orbit. The orbit achieved is 114 km x 18072 km." The Chandrayaan 2 landing date next is September 7.
#ISRO
— ISRO (@isro) August 20, 2019
Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) of #Chandrayaan2 maneuver was completed successfully today (August 20, 2019). The duration of maneuver was 1738 seconds beginning from 0902 hrs IST
For more details visit https://t.co/FokCl5pDXg
#ISRO
— ISRO (@isro) August 20, 2019
Today (August 20, 2019) after the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI), #Chandrayaan2 is now in Lunar orbit. Lander Vikram will soft land on Moon on September 7, 2019 pic.twitter.com/6mS84pP6RD
ISRO chief speaks about Chandrayaan 2 landing
"We have huge a number of emission operations like earthbound manoeuvre and lunar orbit manoeuvre and its timings are adjusted, so that landing timing is the same. The landing timing is sacrosanct for us as we want the landing to start at the beginning of the lunar day "
14:30 IST, August 20th 2019