Chandrayaan
Date of Chandrayaan 3 launch: After breaking many people’s hearts four years ago, ISRO is ready to launch its third mission to the moon on Friday, so that the nation can join the select group of countries that have successfully completed lunar missions with soft landings.
A gentle lunar surface landing is scheduled at the end of August.
The ISRO team was dissatisfied with Chandrayaan-2’s failure to make the intended gentle landing on the lunar surface in 2019. Many people still vividly recall the pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi comforting the former head of the ISRO, K. Sivan. The Satish Dhawan Space Centre’s scientists have been spending long hours to perfect the art of gentle landings on the moon’s surface. India will join the US, China, and the erstwhile Soviet Union as the fourth nation to accomplish this feat with a successful landing.
The LVM3 launcher’s fourth operational mission, Chandrayaan-3, is the third lunar exploration mission that is prepared to launch. The space agency said that ISRO is pushing the envelope by using its Chandrayaan module to demonstrate a gentle landing on the lunar surface and by exploring the lunar area. Future interplanetary missions are anticipated to benefit from this effort.
The Chandrayaan-3 project comprises of a landing module, an indigenous propulsion module,
The 43.5-meter-long rocket is scheduled to launch from the second launch pad at the stipulated time of 2:35 PM on July 14 in the hopes that the launch countdown would begin on Thursday.
The largest and heaviest LVM3 rocket, popularly nicknamed as the “Fat Boy” by ISRO scientists for its heavy-lift capacity, has successfully completed six flights in a row. The propulsion module, the lander module, and the rover (which is housed inside the lander) are combined to form the LVM3 rocket.
This Friday, the LVM3’s fourth operational flight is planned with the objective of transferring the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into a geosynchronous orbit.
The LVM3 vehicle has proven its adaptability by concluding a number of challenging missions with success, including satellite deployments and interplanetary missions. According to ISRO, it is the biggest and heaviest launch vehicle available to transport Indian and foreign client satellites.
The launch window will be changed in July, just as the Chandrayaan-2 mission (July 22, 2019), due to the Earth and Moon’s current near proximity.
This Friday, the LVM3’s fourth operational flight is planned with the objective of transferring the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into a geosynchronous orbit.
The LVM3 vehicle has proven its adaptability by concluding a number of challenging missions with success, including satellite deployments and interplanetary missions. According to ISRO, it is the biggest and heaviest launch vehicle available to transport Indian and foreign client satellites.
The launch window will be changed in July, just as the Chandrayaan-2 mission (July 22, 2019), due to the Earth and Moon’s current near proximity.
On Friday at about 2:35 PM, 16 minutes after launch, experts anticipate that the propulsion module will separate from the rocket and enter an elliptical orbit with an apogee of around 170 kilometers, completing 5 to 6 orbits of the Earth. The distance between it and Earth will steadily increase, reaching distances of up to the lunar orbit and 36,500 kilometers from the Moon, respectively.
The lander module containing the Pragyan rover is anticipated to start its descent for a voyage of more than a month to enter the lunar orbit once it has reached the right trajectory. It will continue to move until it is around 100 kilometers above the lunar surface.
On August 23 or 24, the lander module is anticipated to arrive at its target. At that time, it will begin descending toward the Moon’s south pole in preparation for a soft landing.
Because it is significantly larger than the northern pole zone of the Moon, the southern polar region was selected. In locations that are always in the shade, water may exist. The Chandrayaan-3 project is significant because the propulsion module has a payload termed SHAPE – Spectro-Polarimetric High-Resolution Exploration of Earth’s Moon, in contrast to its failed predecessor.
According to ISRO, SHAPE is an experimental payload created to examine the spectropolarimetric characteristics of Earth.