2023-07-14 · 3 years ago

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

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