Chandrayaan-3 successfully get closer to the moon

A day after placing Chandrayaan-3 into the lunar orbit, the ISRO said that the orbit lowering maneuver was completed successfully.

The next similar operation, according to the space agency, will happen on August 9.

“The anticipated orbit lowering maneuver by the spacecraft was completed successfully. It was now 170 km x 4,313 km from the moon’s surface after the engines were retrofired.

According to a tweet from ISRO on Sunday, “the next operation to further reduce the orbit is scheduled for August 9, 2023, between 1300 and 1400 hrs IST.”

Till August 17, there will be three more moon-bound maneuvers before the landing module. These includes the lander and rover, separates from the propulsion module.

After that, the lander will undergo de-orbiting maneuvers before making the final descent to the moon. On August 23, ISRO said it would try to make a gentle landing on the moon’s surface.

Chandrayaan-3: ISRO’s Orbital Maneuvers Push Spacecraft to Increasing Distances Since Launch

Since its launch on July 14, ISRO has moved the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft more than five times, placing it in orbits that are getting farther and farther from the planet.

In order to demonstrate capability in safe landing and wandering on lunar surface, Chandrayaan-3 is follow-up mission to Chandrayaan-2.

It consists of lander module, rover module, and indigenous propulsion module to test and showcase new technologies.

The lander and rover configuration will be carried by the propulsion module up to 100 km into lunar orbit. In order to examine the spectral and polarimetric data of the earth from the lunar orbit, the propulsion module contains a Spectro-Polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload.

The lander has the capacity to do a soft landing at a chosen location on the moon. The it can deploy the rover, which will conduct in-situ chemical analysis of the moon’s surface while it is moving.

Both the lander and the rover are equipped with scientific packages that will conduct lunar surface research.

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