India's Space Program: Complete Coverage Chandrayaan-2 is India's planned second mission to the moon, which is expected to launch in 2019. It is a follow-up mission from the Chandrayaan-1 mission that assisted in confirming the presence of water/hydroxyl on the moon in 2009. Chandryaan-2willl launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Srihanikota India, aboarda Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket. According to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the new mission will consist of an orbiter a lander and a rover. The orbiter will perfom mapping from an altiude of 100 kilometers (62 miles) ,while the lander will make a softlanding on the surface and send out the rover. Development and Science Initially, ISRO planned to partner with Russia to perform Chandrayaan-2. The two agencies signed an agreement in 2007 to launch the orbiter and lander in 2013.Russia later pulled out of the agreement, however, according to a news report from The Hin...