Last Update: May 29, 2023, 13:36 IST
Chandrayaan 3 mission will take off in July this year
The next-generation lunar mission will give it one more chance in its successful attempt to land on the lunar surface and explore the area with a rover.
The next Chandrayaan 3 mission will be launched in July this year, as confirmed by S Somnath, who heads the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Speaking on the sidelines after the launch of the GSLV F12/NVS-1 rocket on Monday, Somnath shared an update about the next lunar mission on ISRO’s agenda this year.
Chandrayaan 3 is the successor mission to Chandrayaan 2, which faced challenges to complete its landing maneuver and the space agency had to cancel the mission and the issues faced by the spacecraft to land on the challenging part of the Moon Had to learn “In this business (space mission), there is always a possibility of failure,” he was quoted as saying in an ANI report.
The Chandrayaan 3 mission rocket will be launched by LVM3 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. While confirming that the Chandrayaan 3 mission will launch in July, the ISRO chief did not give an exact timeline (date) for the rocket launch, which is likely to be revealed in the coming weeks.
Like the previous version, Chandrayaan 3 will be tasked to safely land and orbit around the lunar surface, for which the space agency will equip the spacecraft with a lander and a rover to complete its mission. “The propulsion module will take the lander and rover configuration up to 100 km lunar orbit. The propulsion module carries the Spectro-Polarimeter of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAP) payload to study spectral and polar metric measurements of Earth from lunar orbit,” as explained by ISRO in its. Post,
ISRO on Monday successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
The primary objective of this mission is to deploy the NVS-01 navigation satellite, which weighs approximately 2,232 kg. The satellite is of the second generation of satellites envisaged for navigation with the Indian constellation array.
With the successful completion of this mission, India will join the elite list of only three other countries in the world. About 20 minutes after launch, the satellite will be injected into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, marking a significant milestone in India’s space exploration journey.
