Chandrayaan-2 landing live updates: Tense moments in ISRO's Mission Control Room

• ISRO's Vikram Lander begins its descent to the South Pole region of the moon
• This mission will make India the fourth country after the US, Russia, and China to conduct a soft-landing on the moon and the first to land near the lunar south pole.

India is all set to script history with the landing of its ambitious moon mission Chandrayaan-2 on the south pole of the lunar surface at 1:55 am on Saturday.

Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, will make a touchdown between two craters at the moon between 1:30 am and 2:30 am on Saturday.

It's rover Pragyan, which translates to 'wisdom' in Sanskrit, will roll out of the lander -- Vikram -- between 5:30 am to 6:30 am to carry out experiments on the surface.

Here are the live updates:

Tense moments Mission Control Room during last 2 min

All was going well till the last two minutes of the powered descent, when tense moments gripped the Mission Control Room.

According to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the Lander Vikram was very close to the landing site at the 13th minute, when it was supposed to begin the last phase of the touchdown. It had reduced its initial velocity of 1.6km/sec to half within the first 7 minutes and had come down to an altitude of 7kms. The first two phase of the lunar descent went as planned.

Scientists were seen getting into a huddle to discuss the operations, following which ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

ISRO is yet to issue any update on the status of the mission. (Inputs by Srishti Choudhary)

ISRO awaits data from 'Vikram Lander'

ISRO chief K Sivan had a word with PM Modi

Rough breaking of Vikram Lander ends and Fine braking phase starts

Scientists at ISRO monitor, as Vikram Lander begins its descent on the south pole of the moon

Powered descent - Rough Braking of Vikram Lander begins.

ISRO's Vikram Lander begins its descent to the South Pole region of the moon.

During the process, Lander Vikram which separated from the orbiter on Sep 2 would slowly lower down on the lunar surface. It is currently orbiting 35 kms above the moon, and has Orbiter exactly revolving above it in a higher altitude nearly 100 kms above.

The thrusters would be fired in four different phases - rough braking which will bring it to 7.4 km above lunar surface from initial 35 kms, followed by absolute navigation control to reduce the altitude to 5 kms and then fine braking to bring it to just 400 metres above the surface. In the end, it will have only vertical descent to slowly touch the surface.

PM Modi reaches ISTRAC, Bengaluru

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the ISRO Centre in Bengaluru to watch the soft landing of Vikram lander on South Pole region of the moon. ISRO Chief K Sivan briefs him about the status of the mission.

Modi will also interact with about 70 students from across the country at the network centre after Vikram's landing and address them.

Scientists gear up for the soft landing of Vikram lander on the South Pole region of the moon. 60 students from across the country, who were selected through the ISRO's 'Space Quiz' competition to watch the landing along with PM Modi, also present at the ISRO centre

15 minutes of terror

landing is a complex manoeuvre, with Kailasavadivoo Sivan, the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), calling it "15 minutes of terror".

As India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, is poised to make a soft landing on the southern surface of the moon in the early hours of Saturday, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered rover of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), will play a significant role in this mission's success.

Christened 'Pragyan' (wisdom in Sanskrit), the homegrown solar-powered robotic vehicle that will manoeuvre the lunar surface on six wheels, comprises a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) from the Laboratory for Electro Optic Systems (LEOS) in Bengaluru to identify elements present near the landing site, and an Alpha Particle Induced X-ray Spectroscope (APIXS) from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad that will inspect the composition of the elements near the landing site.

All about Vikram Lander

Vikram lander weighs 1,471 kilograms and can communicate with Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu near Bangaluru, as well as with the Orbiter and Pragyan rover. As per the ISRO, the lander is designed to execute a soft-landing on the lunar surface at a touchdown velocity of 2 metres per second.

The mission's payloads consist of Terrain Mapping Camera-2, Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer, Solar X-Ray Monitor, Imaging IR Spectrometer among others.

PM Modi at ISRO headquarters

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru around midnight to watch the final descend of Chandrayaan-2. Over 60 high school students across the country who cleared an online space quiz last month will watch the historic event with Modi.

Space scientists exude confidence, as Vikram hours away from landing on moon

With Lander Vikram only hours away from attempting a soft landing on the moon, scientists from various space research centres say that they are confident about the success of the mission.

"Everything has been simulated and tested. We are confident. Even though the success rate of moon landing is low, but our competency is more. We will definitely land," said one of the scientists Vilas Rathore, who is spacecraft manager for Cartosat satellites, which are part of India's Remote Sensing Programme

Hundreds of scientists from various research centres have gathered at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Peenya in Bengaluru to watch Chandrayaan-2 attempt a historic soft landing on the moon.

In Moon mission, the best of Indian talent and tenacity on display

Lander Vikram stood poised delicately above the Moon’s surface on Friday night, preparing for a final lunar descent that will take it out of the control of human minders huddled in Bengaluru’s ground control.

A tight security ring girded the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro’s) Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network station ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival on Friday night to watch Vikram make a soft-landing near the Moon’s south pole, scheduled for 1.40 am.

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