India's Chandrayaan-3 Embarks on a 40-Day Journey to the Moon, Check the latest Updates

Current Update:

Chandrayaan-3 Mission update:
The spacecraft's health is normal.

The first orbit-raising maneuver (Earthbound  firing-1) is successfully performed at ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru. 

Spacecraft is now in 41762 km x 173 km orbit.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission update:
The spacecraft's health is normal.

The first orbit-raising maneuver (Earthbound firing-1) is successfully performed at ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru.

Spacecraft is now in 41762 km x 173 km orbit. pic.twitter.com/4gCcRfmYb4 — ISRO (@isro) July 15, 2023

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India’s Chandrayaan-3, the country’s ambitious lunar mission, sets its eyes on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor, the Moon, in a spectacular journey that embodies the very spirit of human curiosity and creativity. This exciting project aims to push the frontiers of scientific inquiry and boost national pride with a daring attempt to land on the lunar surface in just 40 days. Chandrayaan-3 is poised to ignite the spirit of exploration that fires within each of us as the world waits in anticipation to see what impact it will have on history books and our collective imagination.

Sriharikota: Carrying the dreams of the whole 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 lunar lander, is mounted atop the Bahubali rocket, a Mark 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle.

The spacecraft will take nearly a month to travel from Earth to the moon, and a landing is anticipated on August 23. It will run for one lunar day after arrival, which is equivalent to 14 days on Earth. 14 days on Earth are equivalent to one day on the Moon.

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 at 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 whole globe.

Vikram is supposed to land gently and safely. The lander will subsequently release the rover Pragyan, which will perform research and explore the moon’s surface for a lunar day (14 days on Earth).

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 primary 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.