India Finalizes Payloads For Chandrayaan-2 Mission

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India has finalized the instruments Chandrayaan-2 will carry to the Moon when it launches in 2013.rnIndia's second unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2 will carry "improved versions" of instruments India's previous lunar mission used to find water, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced Sept. 1.rnA total of seven scientific payloads have been selected for the mission, which is targeted for a 2013 launch aboard India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, ISRO spokesman S. Satish told Space News. Five of the instruments will be onboard the orbiting spacecraft while two others will be carried by a rover that will be taken to the lunar surface by a Russian-built lander.