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Chandrayaan-3 To Lift Off Today For The 6-Week Journey To Moon: 10 Points
India's Chandrayaan-3 will lift off at 2.35 pm today from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. A successful mission will make India the fourth nation to land on moon.
- The moon lander Vikram will be perched on a GSLV Mark 3 heavy lift launch vehicle -- dubbed the Bahubali rocket. Renamed Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LM-3), the GSLV stands 43.5 meters tall - half as high as Delhi's Qutb Minar. The journey will take over 40 days - the spacecraft is expected to touchdown on moon on August 23.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation is keeping its fingers crossed, after its last moon mission in July 2019 went awry.
- "We understood what went wrong with Chandrayaan-2 when we could not land on the moon surface, we recreated the failure modes and we ensured that this time we have success," K Sivan, former director of ISRO, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
- In a first, India's mooncraft will land in the South Pole of the moon, where water molecules have been found. The finding, made during India's first moon mission in 2008, had startled the world.
- Vikram is meant to have a safe, soft landing. The lander will then release the rover Pragyan, which will roam the moon's surface for a lunar day -- equal to 14 earth days -- and conduct scientific experiments.
- The scientists hope to analyse the lunar soil, rove around the moon surface, also log moon quakes.
- ISRO says learning from the last moon mission, it has reduced the number of engines on the lander from five to four, and updated the software. Everything has undergone rigorous testing.
- "This time we hope that we have done enough based on the lesson of Chandrayaan-2 that gives us more confidence. In space there are always unknown unknowns...hope that all issues are addressed and that we emerge with success," Mr Sivan said.
- Chandrayaan-1, India's maiden mission to the Moon, launched in October 2008 and remained operational till August 2009.
- In 2019, the lander of Chandrayaan-2 got deviated from the planned trajectory and suffered a hand landing. The orbiter still circles the moon and is sending data.
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