Chandrayaan-3 will undertake repeated de-orbiting maneuvers before landing on the moon to bring it closer to the lunar surface so that lander Vikram may land there.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has posted new photographs of the moon from Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, on X (previously known as Twitter). The photographs show Earth as recorded by the Lander Image camera on Chandrayaan-3, as well as a photo of the moon taken a day after the spacecraft entered lunar orbit. On Saturday (August 5), Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered lunar orbit. On July 14, it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
On August 23, it is expected to settle on the moon.
Isro has identified craters Eddington, Aristarchus, and Pythagoras, as well as Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms), one of the huge, dark expanses on the lunar surface, in the new photos. Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the “seas,” running over 2,500 kilometers across the moon’s north-south axis and encompassing around 4,000,000 square kilometers.VV
Chandrayaan-3 will undertake repeated de-orbiting maneuvers before landing on the moon to bring it closer to the lunar surface so that lander Vikram may land there.
According to Isro CEO S Somanath, a lander propulsion module separation exercise will follow soon after the lander “deboost,” a process that slows the ship down. He explained that it will be followed by a landing on the lunar surface on August 23.
Even if everything fails, if all the sensors fail, and nothing works, it (Vikram) will land. That’s how it’s been intended, assuming the propulsion system works properly,” Mr Somanath told PTI.
Chandrayaan-3 will become India the fourth country after the United States, China, and Russia to land a spacecraft on the moon’s surface, confirming India’s capability for a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface.
