Chandrayaan-3India’s third lunar mission will make India the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon and demonstrate the country’s ability to land safely and softly on the surface of the moon.
The countdown to the launch of the mission will begin on Thursday before it takes off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
“Review of the Service Scheduler is complete. The board has approved the installation. The countdown will begin tomorrow” Image of ISRO he said in a tweet.
It will be launched on the GSLV Mark 3 (LVM 3) launch vehicle.
This will be a follow-up test by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) later Chandrayaan-2 The mission faced challenges during its soft landing in 2019.
The ‘Launch Rehearsal’ which represents the entire preparation and launch has been completed by ISRO.
If all goes well, Chandrayaan-3 will be the first spacecraft to land on the Moon’s South Pole, demonstrating India’s technological prowess and bold ambitions for space travel.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission will demonstrate a safe and gentle landing on the lunar surface, orbit around the moon and conduct in-situ scientific experiments.
ISRO invited citizens to witness the launch of the much-awaited Chandrayaan-3 from the Sriharikota observatory.
During the Chandrayaan-2 mission, ISRO lost contact with the lander when it was about to approach the surface of the moon.
The journey from Earth to the moon of the spaceship that will be launched should take about a month and the landing is expected on August 23. When it lands, it will work for one lunar day, which is about 14 Earth days. One day on the Moon is equal to 14 days on Earth.
K Sivan, former director of ISRO, told ANI that the success of Chandrayan-3 will boost programs like Gaganyan.
“We understood what went wrong with Chandrayan-2 when we couldn’t land on the surface, we recreated the failure models and made sure that this time we do it right. The problem is the same with Chandrayan-2, the same place for landing. This time we hope that we have done enough based on the study of Chandrayan-2 that gives us confidence. In space there are always unknowns… I hope that all the issues are answered and we come out well,” he said.
“We are getting the technology to reach the sky. If we land successfully, we will have the ability to land and it will be good for future generations. Several scientific researches have been planned and scientists will know more about how the moon started and how the world started,” he added.
Mylswamy Annadurai, Mission Director of Chandrayaan-1, said Chandrayaan-3 is a very important mission.
“We have shown that we can orbit, but we have not been able to make a soft landing. By doing this this time we can show that Chandrayan-1 was not only a success. All over the world, the world is looking back to the moon, the real seed that came from Chandrayaan-1. So we need to make the project a success,” he told ANI.
“Hard lessons were learned from Chandrayaan 1 and 2. At every step, we have to have a plan B. There were setbacks in Chandrayaan- 2. This time we are back. We know exactly what we want to do and it will ensure that we can land on the surface of the moon. The reach is bigger, the things everything has been tested several times, we believe this is good…,” he added.
The development phase of Chandrayaan-3 began in January 2020 and was scheduled to launch sometime in 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in development.
The main achievement of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, which was launched in 2008, is the detection of water (H2O) and hydroxyl (OH) on the surface of the moon. The data also showed their prevalence in the polar region.
“The main scientific objective of this mission was to prepare three near- and far-field atlases of the Moon and to map the chemical and mineralogical composition of the entire moon in a spatial manner,” said the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center under ISRO. .
The Moon serves as Earth’s archive and India’s successful lunar mission will help advance life on Earth and prepare to explore the rest of the planet – and beyond.
Director of Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO), S Somanath, had said that if everything goes well, the spacecraft will land on the moon on August 23.
The date has been chosen based on the sunrise of the month but if it is delayed, then the landing can be done next month, he said.