ISRO Chandrayaan-3 Launch on 14 July 2023 : If all goes well, Chandrayaan-3 will land where no spacecraft has gone before — the moon's south pole.
All eyes are on the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)'s Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission which will soft land on the Moon and put the country in an elite club of nations that have accomplished the challenging task. 'Fat boy' LVM3-M4 rocket will carry Chandrayaan-3 as part of the country's ambitious moon mission. The soft landing on Moon's surface is planned for late August. Track all updates of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft launch, only with DH!
Here are the mission objectives of Chandrayaan-3
1) To demonstrate Safe and Soft Landing on Lunar Surface
2) To demonstrate Rover roving on the moon and
3) To conduct in-situ scientific experiments.
"PM Modi says July 14, 2023 will be a date written in golden letters as far as India’s space sector is concerned
The Prime Minister also said in a tweet that this lunar mission will be carrying the hopes and dreams of the entire nations. The Prime Minister also lauded the achievement of India's first lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1, which managed to confirm the presence of water molecules on the lunar surface. He also mentioned that the findings of Chandrayaan-1 were featured in more than 200 scientific publications."
ISRO is on the verge of creating another historic moment as it prepares to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third lunar exploration mission. The launch is scheduled to take place at 2:35 pm on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. Read about our "Chandrayaan-3: Will It Finally Land and Find Evidence of Life on the Moon?" blog.
Chandrayaan-3 Launch Live Updates: The countdown for India’s third mission to the moon — Chandrayaan-3 — has entered the final fifteen minutes, with the mission director giving clearance for automatic launch sequence. Earlier, the filling of the liquid oxygen in the cryogenic engine which will fire the rocket in the third and final stage has been completed. The filling of liquid hydrogen in the cryogenic engine is also under completion. The propellant filling for the liquid second stage of the LVM 3 rocket was completed earlier.
The liquid second stage will fire after the initial burst of power from the two solid booster engines fired at the time off blast off at 14:35:17 hours. According to scientists, after the lift-off at 2.35 pm on Friday, around 16 minutes after lift-off, propulsion module is expected to get separated from the rocket and would orbit the earth for about 5-6 times in an elliptical cycle with 170 km closest and 36,500 km farthest from earth moving towards the lunar orbit.
What is the mission about? The mission aims to achieve what its predecessor could not — land softly on the lunar surface and explore it with a rover. A successful soft landing will make India the fourth country, after the United States, Russia, and China, to achieve the feat. After launching into an orbit around the Earth at an altitude of 179 km on Friday, the spacecraft will gradually increase its orbit in a series of maneuvers to escape the Earth’s gravity and slingshot towards the moon. After reaching close to the moon, the spacecraft will need to be captured by its gravity. Once that happens the lander, which carries the rover inside it, will separate from the propulsion module and start its powered descent.
Chandrayaan-3 Lifts Off For 6-Week Journey To Moon. This is Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing in 2019.
Chandrayaan-3 is the ISRO's follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing on the lunar surface in 2019 and was eventually deemed to have failed its core mission objectives.
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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. It consists of Lander and Rover configuration. It will be launched by LVM3 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration till 100 km lunar orbit. The propulsion module has Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload to study the spectral and Polari metric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit.
Chandrayaan-3 will be inserted into the Lunar Transfer Trajectory after the orbit raising maneuvers. Covering a distance of over 300,000 km, it will reach the Moon in the coming weeks. Scientific instruments onboard will study the Moon's surface and enhance our knowledge.
Chandrayaan-3 is equipped with a lander, a rover and a propulsion module. It weighs around 3,900 kilograms.
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