Till now, only three countries US, Russia and China have been able to soft-land its spacecraft on the mission’s surface. With Israel too planning to launch a moon mission in December, it will be a race between Tel Aviv and New Delhi for the fourth position in the world to land on the moon.
However, India’s most ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission, which was earlier scheduled for October first week, has been postponed till December.
Describing India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Isro chairman had earlier told, “It is totally an indigenous programme. All components of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, including an orbiter, a lander and a rover, have been developed in the country. Their integration is going on and they all are undergoing rigorous tests. On reaching the moon’s orbit, the lender will get detached from the orbiter and soft-land on the lunar surface. It will also take photos of the moon’s surface and relay the images back to the Earth via the orbiter within 15 minutes.”

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