Chandrayaan-3: The heavy-lift Mark 3 Bahubali rocket is holding the moon lander Vikram in place.
Sriharikota: Carrying the dreams of the entire country, India's Chandrayaan-3 launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. If the mission is successful, India will join China, the United States, and Russia as the fourth nation to successfully conduct a controlled lunar landing.
Vikram, a moon lander, is mounted atop the Bahubali rocket, a Mark 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle.
LVM3 M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
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LVM3 M4 vehicle🚀 successfully launched Chandrayaan-3🛰️ into orbit.
The launch, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marks a "new chapter" in India's space voyage and has raised the aspirations and desires of every Indian.
"A new chapter in India's space odyssey is written by Chandrayaan-3. It soars high, boosting the aspirations of every Indian, according to PM Modi's tweet.
The spacecraft's estimated time of travel to the moon is one month, and the expected landing date is August 23. It will run for one lunar day after landing, which is equivalent to about 29 days on Earth.
Three main parts will make up Chandrayaan-3: a lander, a rover, and a propulsion system. It will make use of the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, which is still in the lunar atmosphere.
India's mooncraft "Vikram" will make history when it lands in the moon's South Pole, where water molecules have been discovered. The discovery, which was made during India's maiden lunar mission in 2008, stunned the entire globe.
Vikram is supposed to land gently and safely. The rover Pragyan will subsequently be released from the lander and spend a lunar day exploring the moon's surface while doing scientific experiments.
Four years have passed since the previous Chandrayaan effort, which failed when the ground crew lost touch just before landing.
Chandrayaan-2, the ISRO's second lunar mission, was unable to land in 2019. But in order to prevent such failures, ISRO has made a number of adjustments to the impending mission.
"The main flaw with the most recent Chandrayaan-2 mission was the initiation of off-nominal situations in the system. There were no nominal things. In an exclusive interview with NDTV, ISRO Chief S. Somnath said, "And the craft was not able to handle the off-nominal condition for a safe landing.
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