With a budget of 615 crores, India’s Chandrayaan-3 project seeks to put a lander on the moon’s surface and install a rover for different investigations. It will launch between July 13 and July 19 and will investigate the moon’s characteristics, seismicity, plasma environment, and composition.
The ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to launch between July 13 and July 19. On July 5, India’s primary space agency finished mating the Chandrayaan-3 orbiter with the LVM3 launch vehicle at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
India’s third lunar mission, built at a cost of about 615 crore, aims to put a lander on the moon’s surface, followed by the deployment of a rover to conduct a variety of experiments.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission will deliver scientific equipment to the moon to investigate its thermophysical characteristics, lunar seismicity, lunar surface plasma environment, and elemental composition. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully passed the necessary tests in March to certify its ability to withstand the extreme vibration and acoustic vibration that it would experience during launch.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission is the successor of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which launched on July 22, 2019, and took 48 days to reach the moon’s surface. The project, however, failed after the Vikram lunar lander crashed on the Moon’s surface on September 6, 2019.
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When compared to the previous lander utilized in the Chandrayaan-2 mission, the present lander for the Chandrayaan-3 mission has undergone various alterations. Instead of five motors, the new lander will have four, and some software changes have been implemented. However, it is unclear if ISRO would keep the names of the previous lander and rover, Vikram and Pragyan.
The Spectro-polarimetry of the Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload is a significant addition to Chandrayaan-3. The apparatus is designed to examine Earth’s spectral and polarimetric data from lunar orbit.
According to reports, ISRO has identified three primary goals for the Chandrayaan-3 mission. These goals include landing on the Moon safely and gently, showing the rover’s capacity to move around on the lunar surface, and making scientific investigations immediately on-site.
