Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to exhibit end-to-end functionality in secure touchdown and roving on the lunar floor.
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The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has reached the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota from the place it’s most probably to be launched next month.
After the ultimate meeting of payloads on the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, the spacecraft for India’s third moon mission has reached Sriharikota.
“Chandrayaan-3 has already reached the launch port, preparation is going on there at Sriharikota and we do expect that sometime in July the launch can take place,” mentioned U.R. Satellite Centre Director M. Sankaran on Thursday.
Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to exhibit end-to-end functionality in secure touchdown and roving on the lunar floor.
It could be recalled that the Chandrayaan-2’s Lander crashed whereas making an attempt to make a touchdown on the moon floor in 2019.
Mr. Sankaran mentioned that ISRO has appeared into numerous elements of what occurred to Chandrayaan-2 and that each one precautions have been taken to make sure that the upcoming mission is profitable.
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“Every aspect of the mission has been looked at particularly from the experience that has happened during the Chandrayaan-2 and all possible precautions have been taken and the mood at ISRO is both upbeat as well as apprehensive,” Mr. Sankaran mentioned.
He added that Chandrayaan-3 has been made extra strong primarily based on the expertise of what occurred on the time of touchdown for Chandrayaan-2.
“Every aspect of the mission has been strengthened and whatever is humanly possible all of them have been done. During Chandrayaan-2 time also we were very hopeful that it would be successful but that is the nature of these missions. The gap between success and failure is so narrow and so thin,“ he added.
Mr. Sankaran said that the post flight analysis of Chandrayaan-2 has given ISRO a lot of insight.
Gaganyaan
On India’s first Human Space Flight programme Gaganyaan, Mr. Sankaran said that something important connected to the mission is expected to take place at the end of the year.
“Ganagayaan as you know is a very intense mission with a lot of new development and activities taking place. Many tests are happening for Gaganayaan which are not visible to the public but a lot of work is going on and we do expect that there will be something which will be visible to people during this year,” Mr. Sankaran mentioned.
