Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander's Final Deboosting Done;

[Spartan]

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 successfully underwent a second deboosting operation in the wee hours of Sunday. With this, the mission’s last step is the powered descent towards the south pole of the moon.

Professor Annapurni Subramanian, senior astronomer and director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, said she is confident of the success of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3.

“We will reach there without much of an issue. But it is the last 30 km that will be quite crucial. The parameters of space are vast and involve complexities. There will always be a small non-zero probability that it can go wrong and we cannot eliminate that. But I’m quite certain that we will make it this time. A huge amount of preparation has gone into it and Chandrayaan-3 has the highest probability of being successful," Subramanian said.

- Lander Module Undergoes Second & Final Deboosting Operation

The Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 successfully underwent the second and final deboosting operation on Sunday. This has now the reduced the LM orbit to 25 km x 134 km.

Following this, ISRO posted on the microblogging site X, “The module would undergo internal checks and await the sun-rise at the designated landing site."

Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to begin its powered descent at 5:45 pm on August 23.

[Variety_Pullayya]

russia vodi Luna trouble inchindi anta... 

 

[Spartan]

Just now, Variety_Pullayya said:

russia vodi Luna trouble inchindi anta... 

 

yeah its always the last hurdle that is dangerous...

hope both Russia and India succeed there in exploration..

[r2d2]

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6 hours ago, Variety_Pullayya said:

russia vodi Luna trouble inchindi anta... 

 

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon’s surface due to a technical glitch..

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7 minutes ago, r2d2 said:

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon’s surface due to a technical glitch..

Vachindu andi Musalodu 

[Spartan]

hope Chandryaan will be landing safe and study

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11 minutes ago, Spartan said:

hope Chandryaan will be landing safe and study

Automated 

[Kakynada]

so far so good... 

🙏

[AndhraPickles]

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10 hours ago, Variety_Pullayya said:

russia vodi Luna trouble inchindi anta... 

 

[ARYA]

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Hoping for the best 🙏🙏

[Spartan]

 

India takes the spotlight as the much-awaited moment approaches, with Chandrayaan-3 poised for a historic lunar landing scheduled on Wednesday.

As per the Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) current plan, the power descent for Vikram’s landing is expected to begin at 5.45pm Wednesday (Aug 23). And if all goes well from there, after multiple complex braking manoeuvres, Vikram will be landing at around 6.04pm. The landing module will be at an altitude of 25km when the power descent phase begins and here’s how it will happen.

In the terminal descent phase — the most crucial part of the landing — Vikram will hover at 150 metres height and carry out hazard verification to check for boulders, craters and other obstacles

Based on hazard verification, Vikram will either continue vertical descent or choose an alternative site a few metres away. If it does the latter, that will take around 52 secs more. Once the site is finalised, Vikram will reach a height of 60 metres & proceed to an altitude of 10 metres. From the height of 10 metres, it’ll take Vikram 9 seconds to soft-land land.

[Spartan]

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[Android_Halwa]

Looks like Chandrayaan has ignited a new interest in India. News media and everyone appear to be taking keen interest in the moon mission. 
 

“Chand tak pahunch gaye…”