Chandrayaan-3 — launch
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Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019. Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023, at 14:35 IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. It entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and touched down near the lunar south pole, at 69°S, on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST (12:34 UTC). With this landing, ISRO became the fourth national space agency to successfully land on the Moon, after the Soviet space program, NASA and CNSA, and the first in human history to achieve a soft landing near the lunar south pole.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3. Related NASA reference: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/chandrayaan-3/. Description adapted from Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- Chandrayaan-3
- Organization
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Vehicle
- LVM3
- Location
- Satish Dhawan Space Ctr, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Country
- IN
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Chandrayaan 3 (opens in a new tab) — Adapted from Wikipedia contributors; selected sentences retained and edited for length, reference markers and pronunciation glosses. CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Article and edit history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Chandrayaan 3 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Chandrayaan 3 (opens in a new tab)
