Good News, Chandrayaan-2 orbiter which was already fix around the moon establish a two-way connection with the lander module of Chandrayaan-3 on 21st August, 2023.
ISRO post on X, formerly Twitter :
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 21, 2023
‘Welcome, buddy!’
Ch-2 orbiter formally welcomed Ch-3 LM.
Two-way communication between the two is established.
MOX has now more routes to reach the LM.
Update: Live telecast of Landing event begins at 17:20 Hrs. IST.#Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3
Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on 23rd August, 2023, around 18:04 IST.
Live actions will be available on the 2YoDoINDIA website, its YouTube channel, Facebook, and 2YoDo TV Facebook page from 17:25 IST on 23rd August, 2023.
Ahead of the much-awaited soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon, former director of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and in-charge of the previous lunar mission ‘Chandrayaan-2′, K Sivan said that the mission will be a “grand success“.
K Sivan said :
“We have our own system and we will be establishing a soft landing without any problem. But it is a complex process,”
He said while responding to a question ask whether there would be any impact after the failure of Russia’s Luna-25 mission.
Chandrayaan-3 Would Not Be Impacted by Russia's Luna-25's Failure: ISRO Scientists
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Russia’s moon mission fail after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smash into the moon on 20th August, 2023.
K Sivan said that corrective measures have taken after going through data generate by the Chandrayaan-2 mission.
When ask if those additional systems too were indigenous, K Sivan said, “Everything is indigenous.”
ISRO release images of the lunar far side area capture by the Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC).
ISRO Releases Images of Lunar Far Side Area Captured by Chandrayaan-3's Lander Camera
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This camera assists in locating a safe landing area without boulders or deep trenches during the descent.
As the ‘Vikram‘ lander module of the spacecraft successfully separate from the propulsion module recently, and subsequently underwent crucial deboosting manoeuvres and descended to a slightly lower orbit.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander is name after Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971), who is regard as the father of the Indian space programme.
A GSLV Mark 3 (LVM 3) heavy-lift launch vehicle was use for the launch of the spacecraft that was place in the lunar orbit on 5th August 2023 and since then it has been through a series of orbital manoeuvres been lower closer to the moon’s surface.
It has been a month and 7 days since the Indian Space Research Organisation launch the Chandrayaan-3 mission on 14th July 2023.
The spacecraft was launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota.
The objectives of Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, are safe and soft landing, rover roving on the moon’s surface, and in-situ scientific experiments.
The approve cost of Chandrayaan-3 is Rs. 250 crores (excluding launch vehicle cost).
Chandrayaan-3’s development phase commence in January 2020 with the launch plan sometime in 2021.
But, the COVID-19 pandemic brought an unforeseen delay to the mission’s progress.
The key scientific outcomes from Chandrayaan-2 include the first-ever global map for lunar sodium, enhancing knowledge on crater size distribution, unambiguous detection of lunar surface water ice with IIRS instrument and more.
Moon serves as a repository of the Earth’s past and a successful lunar mission by India will help enhance life on Earth while also enabling it to explore the rest of the solar system and beyond.
