In a massive feat, moon-bound Chandrayaan 2 has been successfully placed in the moon's orbit. It was a rigorous"agnipariksha" of sorts for the moon-bound Chandrayaan-2 on Tuesday when the spacecraft underwent a crucial orbit man oeuvre. After a nearly 30-day journey,India's second mission to the moon inserted into the lunar orbit this morning.

Chandrayaan-2 mission comes 11 years after India's first mission to the moon. The ambitious moon mission aims at setting a major milestone in India's space missions by attempting a soft landing on the lunarsurface. The feat has so far been achieved only by three countries - US, Russiaand China. This mission would shed light on South Pole, a completely unexplored region of the moon.Now, ISRO will carry out four more orbit manoeuvres (August21, 28, 30 and September 1) to enter it into its final orbit passing over lunarpoles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon's surface.Subsequently, theVikram lander will separate from the orbiter on September 2, 2019 and for twodays it will calibrate its systems.Two orbit manoeuvres will be performed onthe lander before the initiation of powered descent to make a soft landing onthe lunar surface on September 7, 2019.Soon after the rover-Pragyan- will rolldown.After working they will go to sleep. Owing the very cold climate thesystems will be very cold and ISRO will try to wake up the systems 14 daysafter, that is, one lunar day.

On July 22, the Chandrayaan-2 was injected into anelliptical orbit of 170x45,475 km by India's heavy lift rocket GeosynchronousSatellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III) in a text book style. Thespacecraft comprises three segments -- the Orbiter (weighing 2,379 kg, eightpayloads), the lander 'Vikram' (1,471 kg, four payloads) and rover 'Pragyan'(27 kg, two payloads).