The third lunar mission from India, Chandrayaan-3, entered the lunar orbit successfully on Sunday, marking a significant milestone for the Indian Space Research Organization. The historic accomplishment is a major step toward the nation’s challenging objective of carrying out a soft landing on the moon’s surface, anticipated for August 23rd.
Chandrayaan 3, India’s next unmanned Moon mission, has sent back its first photographs, which have been made public by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in New Delhi.
On Sunday, the Indian Space Research Organization used the microblogging platform ‘X,’ formerly known as Twitter, to post the FIRST photos of the Moon that Chandrayaan-3 had taken.
Chandrayaan-3, India’s third unmanned Moon mission, entered the lunar orbit safely on Saturday, 22 days after it was launched for a much more challenging 41-day journey to the lunar south pole, where no other country has gone before.
After entering the lunar orbit on Saturday, Chandrayaan-3 delivered a communication to ISRO stating, “I feel the lunar gravity.”
Chandrayaan-3 sent a communication to the ISRO saying, “I am feeling lunar gravity,” after the necessary maneuver to bring it closer to the moon was successfully completed from the Bengaluru space centre.
A significant accomplishment in the ambitious $600 million mission of the space agency was the injection into lunar orbit.
The next procedure, orbit lowering, will be carried out at 11 PM on Sunday, the ISRO announced in a tweet. Chandrayaan-3 will do three additional maneuvers after its Sunday maneuver through August 17 before its Landing Module Vikram, which is also carrying the rover Pragyan, separates from the Propulsion Module.
After that, the lander will perform de-orbiting operations before making the final powered drop to the moon. Over the course of three weeks following the launch on July 14, the craft executed more than five operations in an effort to lift itself against the Earth’s gravity.
If successful, India will join the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China as the only other nations to make a soft landing on the moon. Thousands of spectators gathered in the viewer’s gallery to see the launch, and pundits hailed the rocket’s “majestic” “soaring in the sky” display.
Both the onlookers and the scientists cheered and applauded enthusiastically when the liftoff occurred. Chandrayaan-3, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “scripted a new chapter in India’s space odyssey”.
“It soars high, raising the aspirations and desires of each Indian. This outstanding accomplishment is evidence of our scientists’ unwavering commitment. He said on Twitter, “I appreciate their enthusiasm and resourcefulness.
Following the successful launch, Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the director general of the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), made his initial remarks. The Chandrayaan has been placed in a precise orbit around the Earth by our launch vehicle. According to a tweet from Isro, “the spacecraft’s health is normal.”
According to Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1, it comes 13 years after the nation’s first Moon mission in 2008, which conducted “the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime, “The July 2019 launch of Chandrayaan-2, which also included an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, was only partially successful.
Even now, the orbiter is still circling and studying the Moon, but the lander-rover crashed upon touchdown since it was unable to make a soft landing. Mr. Annadurai cited “a last-minute glitch in the braking system” as the cause.
