Chandrayaan 3 Latest Update: Water, air and life will be known on the moon
News | August 22, 2023 23:27 ISTChandrayaan 3 Latest Update: Water, air and life will be known on the moon
Chandrayaan 3 Latest Update: Water, air and life will be known on the moon
India is set to become the fourth country on Wednesday to master the technology of soft-landing on the lunar surface after the US, China and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Speaking to the media, Dr Surendra Pal said that the lander can hover like a helicopter if a suitable landing area is not available.
These companies and startups have worked for many years to develop the technologies and systems that make Chandrayaan-3 possible. Their hard work and dedication are essential to the success of the mission.
The Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to moon, is scheduled for landing on the lunar surface on August 23.
People with excitement waiting for August 23 when the Vikram Lander will land on the Moon's surface in the south pole.
The mission will be the first to land on the Moon's south pole, which is a region that has not been explored as extensively as other parts of the Moon.
Chandrayaan-3: The propulsion module will work like a satellite between lander and ISRO control room. It will decode the lander's messages and pass them to ISRO.
Chandrayaan-3 mission: Vikram lander successfully separated from the spacecraft's propulsion module. The lander and the rover are carrying scientific payloads to carry out experiments on the lunar surface.
As the mission advances, a progression of moves are being directed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to steadily diminish Chandrayaan-3's orbit and position it over the lunar poles.
Chandrayaan-3's mission began on July 14, entering lunar orbit on August 5. To bring it closer to the Moon's surface, three de-orbiting maneuvers are planned for August 9, 14, and 16, reducing its orbit to 100 km x 100 km. The final landing on August 23 will involve a separation exercise.
What if we tell you that the Chandrayaan-2 mission is still much alive? Well, hopes have revived again after a Chennai-based techie, in a tip-off to ISRO, said that Chandrayaan-2's rover Pragyan seems to be "intact" on the moon's surface and had rolled out a few meters from Vikram lander.
India's maiden attempt to soft-land on the moon during the Chandrayaan-2 mission failed in September last year, as its spacecraft Vikram 'crash-landed' near the moon's south pole due to a velocity glitch, a top space official said on Wednesday.
Vikram had lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) following its launch from Chandraayan-2 moon orbiter on September 6 when it tried to make a soft landing near the moon's south pole.
'No body knows me' is how Shanmuga Subramanian describes himself on his Facebook Page. Come Tuesday morning and world knows that the Chennai man - a Technical Architect at Lennox India Technology Centre has helped NASA and ISRO locate India's - Vikram the Lander. This is Shanmuga's story.
On October 3, Subramanian, a Chennai-based mechanical engineer, had tagged the twitter handles of NASA, LRO and ISRO in a tweet, asking, "Is this Vikram lander? (1 km from the landing spot) Lander might have been buried in Lunar sand?".
The first mosaic image of the likely crash site made from pictures taken by the LROC on September 17 was downloaded by several people to look for signs of the Vikram, NASA said.
Replying to media's query if that if the ISRO would attempt another landing on Moon's south pole, Sivan replied, "Definitely". "We want to demonstrate the technology for Vikram lander landing, We are working on plan of action how to go ahead for Vikram Lander landing," the ISRO Chief informed media, who was in national capital to attend IIT-Delhi 50th convocation ceremony
Replying to media's query if that if the ISRO would attempt another landing on Moon's south pole, Sivan replied, "Definitely".
US Space agency NASA has once again failed to trace Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander on the lunar surface. A NASA spacecraft clicked photos of the landing site of Vikram earlier this month, but couldn't capture the lander.
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