Chandrayaan-3: Everything You Need to Know About India’s Latest Lunar Exploration Mission.
Chandrayaan-3: India’s Third Moon Mission Set to Land Near Lunar South Pole: Chandrayaan-3 is the third and most recent lunar exploration mission under the Chandrayaan program by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). It consists of a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan similar to Chandrayaan-2, but does not have an orbiter. Its propulsion module behaves like a communication relay satellite. The launch of Chandrayaan-3 took place on 14 July 2023, at 2:35 pm IST, and lunar injection of 100 km circular polar orbit was completed successfully as part of phase one The lander and rover are expected to land near the lunar south pole region on 23 August 2023. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is a stepping stone towards ISRO’s future interplanetary missions. The key idea is a technology demonstration of the crucial capability to soft-land on lunar surface safely that the earlier mission could not achieve. The mission has several scientific objectives, such as stud...