Chandrayaan 3 set to land on ‘Chanda Mama’ this evening, crores praying: 10 things

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Chandrayaan 3 set to land on 'Chanda Mama' this evening, crores praying: 10 things

Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing: India will become the fourth country to land a rover on the Moon.

New Delhi:
Chandrayaan 3 Landing Updates: India’s moon mission Chandrayaan-3 is preparing to land on the lunar surface this evening. For this both parties and prayers are being organized with great enthusiasm. ISRO scientists have termed the 20 minutes before Chandrayaan-3’s landing as “20 minutes of terror” for India.

Important information regarding the case:

  1. It will be held at 6.04 pm today Chandrayaan-3 The landing will be broadcast live across the country. Schools will be open for the event and space enthusiasts are planning parties to celebrate this historic moment. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa Chandrayaan-3 Will virtually connect with ISRO at the time of landing.

  2. Suspense has been heightened by the failure of Russia’s lunar mission Luna-25, which crashed on the lunar surface during landing on Sunday. In 2019, the Chandrayaan-2 mission failed to land safely in the same region, which is full of craters and deep gorges.

  3. Space agency ISRO is confident that the landing will happen without any hiccups as scientists have learned many lessons from the Chandrayaan-2 mission.

  4. The landing live telecast will start at 5.20 pm on ISRO’s website, YouTube channel and DD National. At 6.04 pm, the Vikram lander will attempt a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole with the rover Pragyan.

  5. The landing site of Chandrayaan-3 has been carefully selected. The area where traces of water have been found is expected to hold the key to lunar water ice, which could be an extremely valuable resource. Water on the Moon’s surface was discovered in 2009 by NASA’s Chandrayaan-1 probe of ISRO. by device.

  6. The presence of water on the moon raises hopes for future lunar missions – it could be used as a source of drinking water, to cool equipment and produce oxygen. This may also provide clues about the origin of the oceans.

  7. India will become the fourth country to land a rover on the moon after Russia, America and China. The sanctioned cost of Chandrayaan-3 is Rs. 250 crore (excluding launch vehicle cost). The development phase of Chandrayaan-3 began in January 2020, with a planned launch in 2021. However, the progress of the mission was unexpectedly delayed due to the Kovid-19 pandemic.

  8. ISRO said on Tuesday that the mission is on time and the system is being regularly checked. ISRO posted on X (formerly Twitter), “Continuing smooth sailing. The Mission Operations Complex (at ISRO) is full of energy and excitement.” ISRO also released images of the moon taken from an altitude of about 70 km.

  9. The Moon Lander was launched on July 14 on an LVM 3 heavy-lift launch vehicle. It was placed into lunar orbit on August 5. Lander Vikram is named after Vikram Sarabhai, widely regarded as the father of the Indian space programme.

  10. After the Chandrayaan mission, ISRO has several projects, one of which is a mission to study the Sun and the manned space flight program, Gaganyaan. India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, Aditya-L1, is gearing up for launch, possibly in the first week of September.

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