Chandrayaan-3 update

 Chandrayaan-3 

The Bengaluru-based national space agency also reported that the Chandrayaan-3 mission's payloads are all operating normally. Out of the three mission goals, "Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The demonstration of a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface is completed. Rover wandering on the moon has been successfully demonstrated.

Launch date and place - The launch will take place from the Second Launch Pad at SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota on July 14, 2023, at 14:35 IST.

July 07, 2023

Completed electrical vehicle testing. The launch will be visible from the Launch View Gallery at SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota, and the public is encouraged to watch.

July 11, 2023

The 'Launch Rehearsal', which simulated the whole launch preparation and process over 24 hours, is now complete.

July 14, 2023

Chandrayaan-3 was successfully put into orbit by the LVM3 M4 vehicle. In a perfect orbit, Chandrayaan-3 has started its trip to the Moon. The spacecraft is in good health.

July 15, 2023

At ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru, the first orbit-raising maneuver (Earthbound firing-1) is carried out successfully. The current orbit of the spacecraft is 41762 km by 173 km.

July 17, 2023

It was time for the second orbit-raising maneuver. Currently, the spacecraft is orbiting at 41603 km by 226 km.

July 22, 2023

Earth-bound perigee firing, the fourth orbit-raising maneuver, has been finished. Currently, the spacecraft is orbiting at 71351 km x 233 km.

July 25, 2023

On July 25, 2023, an orbit-raising maneuver was carried out. On August 1, 2023, the TransLunar Injection, the following firing, is scheduled.

August 1, 2023

Translunar orbit is entered by the spacecraft. The obtained orbit is 288 km by 369328 km. On August 5, 2023, a Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) is anticipated.

August 05,2023

Successful insertion of Chandrayaan-3 into the lunar orbit. As intended, an orbit of 164 km x 18074 km was attained.

August 06,2023

LBN#2 has been successfully finished. The spacecraft is orbiting the moon at a distance of 170 km by 4313 km.

August 09,2023

After a maneuver on August 9, 2023, Chandrayaan-3's orbit was lowered to 174 km x 1437 km.

August 14,2023

The phase of orbit circularization for the mission has begun. The satellite is in a 151 by 179-kilometer orbit.

August 16,2023

After the firing on August 16, 2023, the spacecraft is in a 153 km x 163 km orbit.

August 17,2023

The Lander Module and Propulsion Module have been successfully separated. Scheduled for August 18, 2023, deboosting

August 19,2023

The orbit of the moon that the Lander Module is in measures 113 km by 157 km. On August 20, 2023, the second de-boosting is anticipated.

August 20,2023

The orbit of the Lander Module measures 25 km by 134 km. On August 23, 2023, at roughly 1745 hours, powered descent is anticipated to start. IST

August 23,2023

I've arrived at my destination, and you have too!

Successful gentle landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon. India, congratulations!

August 24,2023

India-made Chandrayaan-3 ROVER. Designed for the MOON! India walked on the moon after the Ch-3 Rover descended from the Lander! 

India makes a momentous landing with Chandrayaan-3 close to the Moon's south pole.

India's Moon mission created history when it was the first to set foot near the lunar south pole.

With this, India joined the US, the former Soviet Union, and China as the only other nations to successfully make a soft landing on the moon.

At 18:04 local time (12:34 GMT), the Vikram lander from Chandrayaan-3 successfully made landfall.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that "India is now on the Moon" as celebrations erupted all throughout the nation.

"We have succeeded where no other nation has. It's a happy occasion," he continued. From South Africa, where he is attending the BRICS meeting, Mr. Modi was viewing the event live.

Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the head of the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), stated that the successful landing "is not our work alone, this is the work of a generation of Isro scientists."

A few days have passed since Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control.

The collision also brought to light how challenging it is to land in the South Pole region, where the terrain is  "very uneven" and "full of craters and boulders".

India's second lunar mission, which similarly tried to soft-land there in 2019, was a failure. Its lander and rover were destroyed, but its orbiter was still intact.

On Wednesday, stressful moments occurred before the touchdown as the lander, dubbed Vikram after Isro founder Vikram Sarabhai, started its perilous fall while carrying the 26-kg rover known as Pragyaan (the Sanskrit word for wisdom) inside its belly.

The lander's speed was progressively decreased from 1.68 km/s to virtually 0 km/s, allowing it to land gently on the moon's surface.

The six-wheeled rover will crawl out of the lander's belly in a few hours, once the dust has settled, and travel among the rocks and craters on the Moon's surface, gathering important data and photographs to be returned to Earth.

What is the Moon mission's next step for India?

Finding water-based ice is one of the mission's main objectives since it may one day allow for human habitation on the Moon, according to scientists. Additionally, it might be employed to provide rocket fuel for spacecraft traveling to Mars and other far-off places. According to scientists, the vast surface area there that is permanently in shadow could contain water ice stores.

Both the lander and the rover are equipped with five scientific instruments that will help scientists learn more about the physical features of the Moon's surface, the atmosphere near it, and the tectonic activity that occurs beneath the surface.

Isro officials said Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar mission, will assist make some "very substantial" scientific discoveries and will aim to expand on the achievements of the prior Moon missions.

It comes 15 years after Chandrayaan-1, the nation's first Moon mission in 2008, which proved that the Moon has an atmosphere during the day and found water molecules on its dry surface.

Even though the soft landing attempt failed, Chandrayaan-2 was not a total loss because its orbiter is still circling the Moon and would assist the Vikram lander in sending photographs and data to Earth for study.