The Chandrayaan-2 moon mission's lander Vikram is scheduled to land on the lunar surface at 1:55 am on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already reached Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) Bengaluru to witness the historic landing live from the space agency's control room, the first-ever mission to explore the lunar South Pole.

The landing is scheduled for midnight, between 1:30 and 2:30 am IST. After this, the Orbiter payloads will conduct remote-sensing observations from a 100 km orbit while the Lander and Rover payloads will perform in-situ measurements near the landing site.