10 Facts About Chandrayaan 3 You Need To Know

Zee Media Bureau
Jul 07, 2023

The Chandrayaan-3, India's planned third lunar exploration mission, will be launched on July 14 from Sriharikota

Chandrayaan-3 will lift off on July 14 at 2.35 pm and if everything goes well, it will land (on the moon) on August 23

The LVM3 rocket’s fourth mission is Chandrayaan-3. The rockets will carry the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft weighing 3,900 kg or 3.9 ton

The Chandrayaan-3 comprises an orbiter or the propulsion module, a lander called Vikram, and a rover called Pragyan

The orbiter, or the propulsion module as the ISRO named it weighs 2,148 kg, and the lander, including the rover, 1,752 kg

The main purpose of Chandrayaan-3 is to safely land the lander on the moon's soil. Following that, the rover will roll out to do the experiments

Rover will come out after landing, rover has 6 wheels. It will work for 14 days on the moon. It will capture images there

The main function of the propulsion module is to carry the lander module from launch vehicle injection to final lunar 100 km circular polar orbit

Earlier, the spacecraft successfully completed the essential tests that validated its capability to withstand the harsh vibration and accoustic environment

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