On August 20, 2019, Chandrayaan- 2 was successfully inserted into lunar orbit. While orbiting the moon in a 100 km lunar polar orbit, on September 02, 2019, Vikram Lander was separated from the Orbiter in preparation for landing. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 . September 7, 2019 (Lander crash) was recorded as the official date for the flyby/landing phase. The primary mission objectives are expected to be completed by Orbiter operational (initially 1 year, extended). Chandrayaan - 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) is an X ray fluorescence (XRF) experiment on board Chandrayaan - 2 Orbiter to map the elemental abundances of the major rock forming elements on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-2 was India’s second lunar mission launched by ISRO on July 22, 2019 , to study the Moon’s south polar region. This mission was made up of an orbiter, a lander, and a rover. The lander was called Vikram and the rover was called Pragyan. It was injected into orbit by a GSLV Mk III rocket, launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
