2023-08-23 14:42:47
The live broadcast of the landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the Moon at ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facilities in Bengaluru, India on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. AIJAZ RAHI / AP
The Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully landed on the moon on Wednesday August 23 under the eyes of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was following the event from Johannesburg where the Brics summit is being held. This new attempt of the Indian program, in full swing, comes four years after a bitter failure, the ground team having lost contact with the machine shortly before the arrival on the Moon.
Also, this mission takes place just days after Luna-25, the first probe to be launched by Russia to the Moon since 1976, crashed there.
Chandrayaan-3, launched six weeks ago, was slower to reach the Moon than the manned US Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, which got there in days. The Indian rocket is indeed much less powerful than the Saturn V, the rocket of the American lunar program. She had to make five or six elliptical orbits around the Earth to gain speed, before being sent on a lunar trajectory lasting a month. Vikram detached from its propulsion module last week and has been transmitting images of the Moon’s surface since entering lunar orbit on August 5.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
‘India????????,
I reached my destination
and you too!’
: Chandrayaan-3Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon ????!.Congratulations, India????????!#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
Area of the far side of the Moon captured by the Lander’s Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC), August 19, 2023. ISRO
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