Chandrayaan-2 likely next year end or 2010: ISRO
After the successful launch of India’s first unmanned mission to moon, Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to send its second lunar odyssey, Chandrayaan-2, an Indo-Russian joint venture, likely by the end of next year or early 2010.
The work on this project would be taken up after Chandrayaan-1 starts its task of researching the moon, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here after the PSLV-C11 launched the spacecraft.
"One of the two GSLV missions next year could carry Chandrayaan-2," he said.
The team behind the success of the first mission would work on Chandrayaan-2 also, he added.