India and Japan to launch joint lunar mission

Bengaluru, Nov 17: India and Japan will launch a joint lunar  mission to jointly explore the moon.

Announcing this at a press conference, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar and his Japanese counterpart Dr Naoki Okumura said that an implementation agreement for the collaborative mission will be finalised within the next two months. Both India and Japan have already conducted separate lunar missions and wanted to further probe the mysteries of moon through joint work. India's next lunar mission, Chandrayaan 2 was expected to take off before March next year with a proposal to land a rover on the surface of the moon. UNI