Chandrayaan 3 Launch HIGHLIGHTS - Successful Launch A Major Achievement Of Indian Scientists: PM Modi
ISRO Chandrayaan-3 Launch HIGHLIGHTS: The Indian Space Research Organisation third lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-3, was launched on Friday, July 14. Follow this blog for latest updates
Background
Chandrayaan-3 Launch HIGHLIGHTS: Welcome to the live blog for the launch countdown of Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3, the succeeding mission to Chandrayaan-2, was launched on Friday, July 14, 2023, at 2:35 pm IST. The Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3), the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) most powerful rocket, launched Chandrayaan-3 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Unlike its predecessor, Chandrayaan-3 will not carry an orbiter.
The launch vehicle used this time is called LVM3-M4. The spacecraft has a mission life of one lunar day, which is equivalent to 14 Earth days.
Chandrayaan-3: Objectives, Payloads, And Planned Trajectory
Chandrayaan-3 aims to put a lander and a rover on the Moon’s highlands near the south pole, and to demonstrate end-to-end landing and roving capabilities. The objectives of Chandrayaan-3, apart from demonstrating a safe and soft landing and roving capabilities on the lunar surface, is to conduct in-situ scientific experiments, and develop and demonstrate new technologies required for interplanetary missions.
Chandrayaan-3's lander will be equipped with five payloads. These are the Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChasTE), Instrument for Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA), Langmuir Probe, Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) Rover, and Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA).
The Chandrayaan-3 lander has been designed in such a way that it can land softly on the Moon at a specified site, and deploy the rover, whose aim is to conduct in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface. The propulsion module will carry the lander module to the final 100-kilometre circular orbit. After reaching this orbit, the lander module and the propulsion module will separate.
The propulsion module, after separation, will remain in orbit around the Moon, and act as a communications relay satellite.
The propulsion module is equipped with a payload called Spectro-polimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE). The function of SHAPE is to study the spectral and polarimetric measurements of Earth from lunar orbit. This means that SHAPE will analyse the spectro-polarimetric signatures of Earth.
Chandrayaan-3: When And How To Watch Launch Online
One can watch the launch of Chandrayaan-3 online on the official Youtube channel of ISRO, or on Doordarshan.
The electrical tests on the vehicle assembly of LVM3-M4 and Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft have been completed. People who wish to watch the launch live from the Launch View Gallery at Satish Dhawan Space Centre can register themselves at ivg.shar.gov.in/.
Chandrayaan 3 Launch Live Updates - Successful launch of Chandrayaan 3 a major achievement of Indian scientists: PM Modi
"Today, on the successful launch of Chandrayaan 3, entire India is excited. This is a major achievement of our scientists. In the arena of Space, India and France have had an old and deep cooperation. There have been new agreements between our Space agencies... We can enhance our cooperation in areas like Space-based Maritime Domain Awareness," PM Modi in a presser in Paris.
Chandrayaan 3 Launch Live Updates: Chandrayaan 3 will reach the moon on August 23
Dr V Narayanan, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at ISRO says, "...It (Chandrayaan 3) will reach (the moon) on 23rd August...This is an important project for India. We are going to make soft landing for the first time. I am confident, we will succeed..."
"After this, we are immediately going for Gaganyaan programme...We are also going for Aditya L1 Mission in August..," he further said, as per ANI.
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