BIG BREAKING | India Achieves Lunar Triumph: Chandrayaan-3 Mission successfully lands on the Moon
Chandrayaan-3 lands on Moon: The much-anticipated Chandrayaan-3 mission scripted history in the country as Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander successfully lands on the Moon making India the first country in the world to land its spacecraft on the lunar South Pole.
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Officials at India's space agency ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru broke into applause after the Vikram began its powered vertical descent towards its landing site.
Congratulating India, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took to their Twitter handle and wrote, "Chandrayaan-3 Mission:India, I reached my destination and you too!': Chandrayaan-3"
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India????????,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon ????!.
Congratulations, India????????!#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3 — ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
"India is on the moon!" Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is currently attending the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg said. He watched the live telecast and as soon as the touchdown happened he sported a big smile and waved the tricolour.
The countdown of the Vikram hovered at 150 metres, then 130 metres, 50 metres and decelerated as approached the moon's service before finally touching down on the lunar surface.#WATCH | "No country has reached there (the South Pole of the moon) before. With the hard work of our scientists we have reached there," says PM Modi on the soft landing of ISRO's third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 on the moon pic.twitter.com/XSLCqzcWZT — ANI (@ANI) August 23, 2023
As the Vikram lander carrying the Pragyaan rover in its belly touched down on the lunar surface, it marked a giant leap in India’s spacefaring journey providing a well-deserved finale to ISRO’s long years of toil.
The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14. A GSLV Mark 3 (LVM 3) heavy-lift launch vehicle was used for the launch of the spacecraft that was placed in the lunar orbit on August 5 and since then it has been through a series of orbital manoeuvres been lowered closer to the moon’s surface.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander is named after Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971), who is widely regarded as the father of the Indian space programme. The 'Vikram' lander module of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully separated from the propulsion module last week, and the spacecraft then completed critical deboosting manoeuvres and descended to a slightly lower orbit.
Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission, becomes India the fourth country after US, China, and Russia, to land its spacecraft on the surface of the moon and demonstrate the country’s abilities for safe and soft landing on the lunar surface.
Chandrayaan-3 components include various electronic and mechanical subsystems intended to ensure a safe and soft landing such as Navigation sensors, propulsion systems, guidance & control among others. Additionally, there are mechanisms for the release of Rover, two-way communication-related antennas and other onboard electronics.
The stated objectives of Chandrayaan-3 are safe and soft landing, rover roving on the moon's surface, and in-situ scientific experiments.
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.
- PTC NEWS
