'Chandrayaan-3 landing will be postponed to August 27 if...': ISRO scientist
India | August 22, 2023 6:25 ISTThe Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to moon, is scheduled for landing on the lunar surface on August 23.
The Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to moon, is scheduled for landing on the lunar surface on August 23.
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander went through a key deboosting manoeuvre on Friday after successfully getting separated from the propulsion module.
Chandrayaan-3: ISRO is bidding to make a successful soft landing on the moon, which will make India the fourth country in the world to achieve the feat after the United States, Russia, and China.
Speaking during the interaction over 'Chandrayaan-3: Bharat’s Pride Space Mission', ISRO chief S Somanath said that the 'Vikram' lander has been designed in such a way that it will be able to handle failures.
Earlier on August 1, the ISRO informed that the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft completed its orbits around the Earth and is now heading towards the Moon.
Chandrayaan 3 launch: Chandrayaan-2 had failed in its lunar phase when its lander 'Vikram' crashed into the surface of the moon following anomalies in the braking system in the lander while attempting a soft landing on September 7, 2019. Chandrayaan's maiden mission was in 2008.
Chandrayaan-3 launch HIGHLIGHTS: Conducted by the Indian Space Research Organisation, this is India’s third lunar mission.
Chandrayaan-3 mission update: Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km.
Chandrayaan-3: ISRO successfully conducted a key rocket engine test which was carried out for a planned duration of 25 seconds.
ISRO SSLV D2 launch: The SSLV-D2 soared into the skies at around 9:18 am from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and attempt to put three satellites into a 450 km circular orbit during its 15 minute flight, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.
NISAR satellite launch: ISRO and NASA joined hands in 2014 to build the 2,800 kg satellite. In March 2021, ISRO sent its S-Band SAR payload developed in India to NASA for integration with the L-Band payload built by JPL.
ISRO 2023 missions: The upcoming year will also witness a series of experiments on India's maiden human space flight- Gaganyaan project- with the first uncrewed mission expected in the last quarter of 2023.
ISRO rocket launch: Former ISRO chiefs K Sivan and AS Kiran Kumar and Bharti Enterprises founder-chairman Sunil Mittal among others witnessed the launch from the Mission Control Centre.
A 24-hour countdown to the launch has started. Another set of 36 OneWeb satellites will be launched by the LVM3 in the first half of next year, said Scientist S Somanath, Chairman, ISRO.
LVM3 M2 launch: "It is the first LVM3-dedicated commercial launch on demand through NSIL," ISRO had said.
Chandrayaan-2: The study finds that a part of the signal could be arising from a thin veneer of sodium atoms weakly bound to the lunar grains.
According to ISRO, the test of a flight equivalent 30 kN hybrid motor demonstrated ignition and sustained combustion for the intended duration of 15 seconds.
The launch vehicle carrying DS-EO satellite along with two other co-passenger satellites lifted off at 6.02 PM from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
The booster engine is part of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII (GSLV Mk III) rocket that would carry Indian astronauts to space.
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