India will start the second goal-oriented mission to land a meanderer there in the following two to three years after the achievement of Chandrayaan-I mission which was intended to circle the Moon.

Space Secretary K Radhakrishnan said at a question and answer session here that Chandrayaan-II is a mission where we basically need to proceed onward (lunar) surface to direct examinations.  We will start Chandrayaan-II with an indigenous meanderer and lander utilizing GSLV by 2016 or 2017.

The Chandrayaan-II will have indigenously advanced meanderer and a lander utilizing the Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV). Chandrayaan-I, India's first mission to Moon, was started effectively on October 22, 2008 from Sriharikota.

Discussing Chandrayaan-II, Radhakrishnan said a study was carried out to check if an indigenous lander and meanderer could be produced which gave a positive sentiment after which the ISRO chose to continue with the undertaking.

The space apparatus was circling around the Moon at a stature of 100 km from the lunar surface for synthetic, mineralogical and photograph geologic mapping of the Moon.  Radhakrishnan, in any case, included that there were a couple of mechanical components in a lander which need to be created.