A dish antenna is seen contained in the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) facility on August 23, 2023 in Bengaluru.
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With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, efficiently touchdown on the floor of moon on Wednesday, the focus has now moved to the rover in its stomach, Pragyan.
The officers on the Mission Operations Complex (MOX) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC) are readying to roll out the rover, which is able to perform in-situ chemical evaluation of the lunar floor in the course of the course of its mobility.
“The Pragyan rover may come out in the next few hours or it may take one day also to come out depending on the conditions,” ISRO Chairman S. Somanath mentioned.
He mentioned that after out, the rover would perform two vital experiments. It has two payloads — the LASER Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). The goals of the LIBS are to conduct qualitative and quantitative elemental evaluation and to derive the chemical composition and infer mineralogical composition to additional our understanding of the lunar floor.
The APXS will decide the fundamental composition of lunar soil and rocks across the touchdown website.
The group behind Chandrayan-3’s success
Soon after the ISRO achieved the historic feat of touchdown on the lunar south pole, Mr. Somanth launched the important thing members who enabled India to obtain the duty flawlessly.
P. Veeramuthuvel, Project Director, Chandrayaan-3, mentioned, “It is a great moment of happiness, it gives me immense satisfaction on achieving this goal as Project Director of this mission. The entire mission operations from launch till landing happened flawlessly as per the timeline and we have become the fourth country to demonstrate the soft landing on the moon and the first country to go to the south pole of the moon.”
Sreekanth, Mission Director, Chandrayaan-3, mentioned, “It gives me immense pleasure to be part of Chandrayaan-3 and as Mission Director, I would like to thank each and every team member who has supported in carrying out all the mission operations flawlessly.”
Calling it a memorable second, Kalpana Okay., Associate Project Director, Chandrayaan-3 mentioned, “We have achieved our goal flawlessly after rebuilding our spacecraft. It has been breath in and out for our team.”
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M. Sankaran, Director of U.R. Rao Satellite Centre, mentioned, “Today we have achieved what we set out to achieve in 2019. It was delayed by four years but we have done it.” He was referring to the failed touchdown of Chandrayaan-2 in 2019.
