LVM3-M4 rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3 lifts off from Sriharikota
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SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its third lunar mission Chandrayaan 3 on board the heavy-lift LVM3-M4 rocket right here on Friday.
At the tip of the 25.30-hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the biggest and heaviest in its class and dubbed as ‘Fat Boy’ lifted off majestically at a prefixed time at 2.35 pm from the second launch pad, discharging thick plumes of smoke.
Thousands of spectators who had converged to witness the historic launch cheered the rocket because it made its ascent into the skies.
Chandrayaan-3 mission: Spacecraft lifts off efficiently from Sriharikota
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With the Chandrayaan-3 mission, scientists are aiming at mastering tender touchdown on the lunar floor, a difficult technical side that’s deliberate for late August.
A profitable mission would make India solely the fourth nation to attain the uncommon feat after the United States, China and the previous Soviet Union.
Chandrayaan 3 follows the Chandrayaan 2 mission which didn’t obtain the specified tender touchdown on the floor of the moon in 2019, disappointing the scientists.
According to ISRO officers, round 16 minutes after lift-off, the propulsion module will separate from the rocket and would orbit the Earth about 5-6 occasions in an elliptical cycle with 170 km closest and 36,500 km farthest from Earth shifting in direction of the lunar orbit.
The propulsion module together with the lander, after gaining velocity would proceed for an over a month-long journey in direction of reaching the orbit of the moon till it goes 100 km above the lunar floor.
After reaching the specified altitude, the lander module would start its descent for a tender touchdown on the south pole area of the moon and this motion is anticipated to happen on August 23 or 24, scientists at ISRO stated.
READ MORE: Chandrayaan-3 mission will carry hopes and desires of our nation: PM Modi
SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its third lunar mission Chandrayaan 3 on board the heavy-lift LVM3-M4 rocket right here on Friday.
At the tip of the 25.30-hour countdown, the LVM3-M4 rocket, the biggest and heaviest in its class and dubbed as ‘Fat Boy’ lifted off majestically at a prefixed time at 2.35 pm from the second launch pad, discharging thick plumes of smoke.
Thousands of spectators who had converged to witness the historic launch cheered the rocket because it made its ascent into the skies.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Chandrayaan-3 mission: Spacecraft lifts off efficiently from Sriharikota
Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/8fATRuqkzy#ISRO #Chandrayaan3 #Sriharikota pic.twitter.com/2Pj1frPCBh
— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) July 14, 2023
With the Chandrayaan-3 mission, scientists are aiming at mastering tender touchdown on the lunar floor, a difficult technical side that’s deliberate for late August.
A profitable mission would make India solely the fourth nation to attain the uncommon feat after the United States, China and the previous Soviet Union.
Chandrayaan 3 follows the Chandrayaan 2 mission which didn’t obtain the specified tender touchdown on the floor of the moon in 2019, disappointing the scientists.
According to ISRO officers, round 16 minutes after lift-off, the propulsion module will separate from the rocket and would orbit the Earth about 5-6 occasions in an elliptical cycle with 170 km closest and 36,500 km farthest from Earth shifting in direction of the lunar orbit.
The propulsion module together with the lander, after gaining velocity would proceed for an over a month-long journey in direction of reaching the orbit of the moon till it goes 100 km above the lunar floor.
After reaching the specified altitude, the lander module would start its descent for a tender touchdown on the south pole area of the moon and this motion is anticipated to happen on August 23 or 24, scientists at ISRO stated.
READ MORE: Chandrayaan-3 mission will carry hopes and desires of our nation: PM Modi
